Self Critique: Rem Koolhaas

The following quotes were taken from Rem Koolhaas' architectural vent session that is Junkspace.  While reading the text, I couldn't help but notice the critiques that were laid out about the current state of architecture were just that of what Rem was doing himself (or will be doing in the future,) as well as everyone else.  I applaud the fact that Koolhaas is able to be self critical and not hide behind the fact that there are things that he does not fully agree with....and that we should be aware of the idea of "Junkspace" as it is everywhere..no matter what we do.



1 "Architects thought of Junkspace first and named it Megastructure, the final solution
to transcend their huge impasse."

DE ROTTERDAM, 2013

2
"All materialization is provisional: cutting, bending, tearing, coating: construction has acquired a new softness, like tailoring....The joint is no longer a problem, an intellectual issue: transitional moments are defined by stapling and taping, wrinkly brown bands barely maintain the illusion of an unbroken surface; verbs unknown and unthinkable in architectural history- clamp, stick, fold, dump, glue, shoot, double, fuse- have become indispensable."

SEATTLE LIBRARY, 2004

3
"The plan is a radar screen where individual pulses survive for unpredictable periods of time in a Bacchanalian free-for-all...In this standoff between the redundant and the inevitalbe, a plan would actually back matters worse, would drive you to instant despair.  Only the diagram gives a bearable version."

SEATTLE LIBRARY, 2004

4
...Acres of glass hang from spidery cables, tautly stretched skins enclose flaccid nonevents.  Transparency only reveals everything in which you cannot partake."

WYLY THEATER CONCEPT