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5.0

Highlights + Notes:

Rem Koolhaas - Thoughts on the commercialization of architecture, recent Chinese architecture, how architecture competitions result in lots of wasted work, and how preservation varies across continents. I really like Rem Koolhaas' CCTV Building in China and he's pretty articulate about his theories.

Dieter Rams - The best part of this interview is about making products that are so simple and well designed that they can be enduring in their design. It doesn't break and it doesn't feel old and passé. Strangely enough, he also says if he were starting over he wouldn't be a designer because the world already has too man things.

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