Quotes by Reed Kroloff

“I dont know whats left. Maybe part of it is there and part of it isnt.”

“A 1967 house in Dallas can be replaced with another one; an 1867 house in New Orleans cant.”

“The creation of this sugarplum fairy vision of what a city looks like or can look like is an unnecessary, and I think, slightly insulting view of human intelligence.”

“This is our Katrina dividend.”

“Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself.”

“When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and its now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.”

“Peters essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. Hes such a sweet boy.”

“Dude, Im not sure if this U of M situation thing is going to work out. See, I still havent heard from the school. Listen Reed, you so need to get me a job if it doesnt work out. I am a writer and am known for excellent architectural research and you better hook me up with a fabulous job somewhere. Also, its been almost ten days since I filed for divorce and no one has shown interest in me. I think I need to hook up with the Germans. For some reason, the Germans really like me alot. Lets see there was Mattias, the German intern over at the firm that I worked for who liked me alot and then there was my German roof tile supplier in Singapore who kept giving me free VIP passes to all those events and then of course there is my neverending love affair with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe whose autobiography by Peter Blake contains one of the most erotic sketches in the whole wide world. These Germans I tell you. They have this thing for me. I must look like the Bauhaus.”

“Didnt you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didnt show up at the movies, he didnt show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time youre in the school of architecture-I just cant get in?”

“Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops.”