Rem Koolhaas Quotes About Sustainability

Quotes about: Sustainability

• Sustainability has become an ornament.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Ornaments, Sustainability

• What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Years, Issues, Intellectual

  "Reinventing the city: An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, www.csmonitor.com. July 20, 2012.

• Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Unique, Talking, Numbers

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

• But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Political, Ornaments

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