Elizabeth Diller Quotes
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Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.
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We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.
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We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.
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My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
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Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.
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I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.
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Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.
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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
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I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting.
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I can't live without my 15-inch MacBook Pro. I drag it everywhere I go. I love having a big screen with me at all times, especially in transit.
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Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.
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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.
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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
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I have a real survivor's instinct.
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Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.
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I can't imagine having a spouse who is not an architect. It's hard to put myself in the shoes of other couples where each partner brings totally different things from their day to the table.
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Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do.
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We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.
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In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.
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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
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I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.
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I don't really know what 'starchitect' means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you're sought-after.
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Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.
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We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.