People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and…

Rem Koolhaas
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People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ✨ From Bauhaus to Koolhaas. Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1, 1996.
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