It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”
— Rem Koolhaas · Age
The World Motivation
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”
— Rem Koolhaas · Age
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.
The study of expression ought to form a part of the study of psychology, but it also comes within the province of anthropology because the habitual, life-long expressions of the face determine the wrinkles of old age, which are distinctly an anthropological characteristic.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.