The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Rem KoolhaasMost old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
Rem KoolhaasIt is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
Rem KoolhaasThe acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas