132 Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

The work in S,M,L,XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow—shopping centers, airports—it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture....

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.