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Architecture has died and been replaced by air conditioning.


Rem Koolhaas

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IMAMU AMIRI BARAKA Being interesting has been replaced by being identifiable.
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REM KOOLHAAS The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthrou...
REM KOOLHAAS When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also l...
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REM KOOLHAAS The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
REM KOOLHAAS The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
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REM KOOLHAAS As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human...
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REM KOOLHAAS Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incr...
REM KOOLHAAS Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewher...
REM KOOLHAAS Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining ...
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REM KOOLHAAS Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
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REM KOOLHAAS Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
REM KOOLHAAS It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
REM KOOLHAAS Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to ...
REM KOOLHAAS I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in te...
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REM KOOLHAAS The image of the Lord has been replaced by a mirror.
JORGE LUIS BORGES I say if we got a cot and air conditioning, go for it. But that's me. If I had my way we'd be able t...
LOUIS CATALDIE It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning thei...
GARRISON KEILLOR It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning thei...
GARRISON KEILLOR On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lo...
JACK STEPHENS Reprimand not a child immediately on the offence. Wait till the irritation has been replaced by sere...
MOSES HASID The only thing they don't have is air conditioning.
EDDIE SANTOS What has been is what it seems will be unless we can break our conditioning by realizing our conditi...
JAMES DYE My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
PARKER STEVENSON History has been stolen from us and replaced with guilt inducing lies.
STEFAN MOLYNEUX Here's a thought for sweat shop owners: Air Conditioning. Problem solved.
MITCH HEDBERG Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
JHONEN VáSQUEZ Customers with this equipment can go to the Web site and set thresholds for their heat and air condi...
CHRIS KING Rem really looked good. This is his best outing by far. ... That was real impressive.
BOBBY COX This is the annual time of year for the air-conditioning complaint.
ADAM GRIFFIN Clinton beat a Bush, then was replaced by a Bush who may be replaced by a Clinton. The whole thing h...
LEE MIRINGOFF I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
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KLAUS BREIL The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON ...the image of the Lord had been replaced by a mirror.
JORGE LUIS BORGES The air conditioning was off. The flight controllers were sitting there wiping sweat.
ALAN STERN Frame after aluminium frame had replaced the casements. The gesture by which you push a window open ...
AMIT CHAUDHURI The golden section was discovered by the Egyptians, and has been used in art and architecture, most ...
STEVEN L. GRIFFING That aerosol, including the bacteria, could get sucked into a building's air conditioning system or ...
DAVID MCKEOWN Owners of valuable works of art don't give to institutions that don't provide good air condi...
STANLEY MARCUS A man cannot live more than 24 hours unless he has at least three cubic meters of air that is being ...
ANTOINE LAVOISIER Take a sheet and get it wet and lay it across you, then go lay by an open window. When the breeze bl...
PEGGY ANDREWS The collection has been recognized by experts in the field as one of the top ten historical architec...
DENEEN BRANNOCK The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, ...
P. J. O'ROURKE The air conditioning industry provides a vital service to the general public by keeping people cool ...
LOUIS HOBAICA Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our life...
JACOB BRONOWSKI There has been no regular architecture since Sir William Chambers - the public taste corrupted by th...
JAMES WYATT It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the T...
BECKI NEWTON Some of the area's vacant lots and homes that have been run down have been replaced by housing with ...
JUSTIN JONES You've got pickup trucks with CDs, leather seats and air conditioning, four-door, and they can sit f...
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NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS The standard method by which we have been measuring obesity is obsolete and should be replaced by th...
SALIM YUSUF The air conditioning in my bedroom went out yesterday. It's like you're going into a steam room.
ANNIE DENNIS A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
DAVID HARSANYI I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big ...
NANCY GRACE that can isolate the air-conditioning from the high-voltage and low-voltage wiring underneath the fl...
WILLIAM COLLIER We practically lived there in the summer. Nobody had air conditioning. It was hot and it was the pla...
JOHN SMITH It was hard real hard. Rem was great about it. He's a real pro.
DUSTY BAKER Air conditioning reduces fuel efficiency 15 to 20 percent. Opening the windows is actually better fo...
ALEX FOWLER Even if you're running air conditioning, the hot water is really a big spike in your energy bill.
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GREG LYNN The air quality has been pretty good.
DOUG CONAWAY Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a pe...
JOHN CHRISTOPHER Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
TINY TIM Speculation was now news. News had been confused with fact. Fact had been replaced by expert opinion...
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JOHN WALSH market dynamism has replaced dogmatism.
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