"It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces." ― Rem Koolhaas Topic(s): Age More From Rem Koolhaas "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." "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." "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." More In Age "Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."― Herman Melville "He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."― Plato "Every time I see something terrible, it’s like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."― Ralph Nader