"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things." ― Rem Koolhaas Topic(s): Architecture More From Rem Koolhaas "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." "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." More In Architecture "French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."― Stephen Gardiner "If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."― Arne Jacobsen "Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult."― Robert Palmer