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Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Definitions

Mixtures

Omnipotence
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When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Dictatorship

Late

Missions
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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Difficult

Ornaments

Political

Serious

Sustainability

Thinking

Category

Getting

More And More

Ornament
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Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Architecture

Contradiction

Essentials

Groups

Modesty

Notion

Profession

Stars

Rare

Collective

Essential
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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.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Men

Space

Sky
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The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.
Rem Koolhaas / Architect
Cutting

Political

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