Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 17. November 1944 |
Geburtsort | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
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Beschreibung | Remment Lucas Koolhaas (niederländische Aussprache: [rɛm koːlɦaːs]; geboren am 17. November 1944) ist ein niederländischer Architekt, Architekturtheoretiker, Urbanist und Professor für Praxis der Architektur und Stadtplanung an der Graduate School of Design der Harvard University. Er wird oft als Vertreter des Dekonstruktivismus zitiert und ist Autor von Delirious New York: Ein retroaktives Manifest für Manhattan. |
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
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.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
