"A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same."

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Source : "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.

Rem Koolhaas

#Two Quotes #Building Quotes #Makers Quotes

“One man who saw through his own eyes and thought with his own brain.Â Such men may be rare, they may be unknown, but they move the world.”
“My parents knew that I did King-Cat, but honestly my mom didn't want to see a lot of it. She would tell me, "I don't want to know any of what's really going on." Nowadays, when I put out a new issue, my mom will say, "Is there anything in there that will make me upset?" So I have to sit down and screen it.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”

Source : The Common Law Lecture 1 (1881).
“Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.”
“A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.”
“I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.”
“It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.”
“Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.”

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