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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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.

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Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

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Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

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That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

From Rem Koolhaas

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