Rem Koolhaas

"There's nothing Dutch about my architecture."

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

"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."

"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."

"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."

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

"Infrastructure is much more important than architecture."

"The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt."

"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."