"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things." ― Rem Koolhaas Topic(s): Architecture More From Rem Koolhaas "Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning." "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." "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." More In Architecture "As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost."― Harry von Zell "What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?"― Bernard Levin "Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life."― Truman Capote