'The Countryside Is Where The Radical Changes Are': Rem Koolhaas Goes Rural • Discoverology

‘The Countryside Is Where The Radical Changes Are’: Rem Koolhaas Goes Rural

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“There has been no architecture of a similar vigour in the last 100 years. It is based strictly on codes, algorithms, technologies, engineering and performance, not intention. Its boredom is hypnotic, its banality breathtaking.” For Koolhaas, the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center embodies a new kind of sublime.

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