Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai Acceptance Copy Share Image
The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. — Jimenez Lai Ideas Copy Share Image
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between… — Jimenez Lai Architect Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Architect Copy Share Image
I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Archaeology Copy Share Image
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Absurd Copy Share Image
As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and… — Jimenez Lai Aesthetics Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not… — Jimenez Lai Action Copy Share Image
If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling… — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert… — Jimenez Lai Learning Copy Share Image
The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment,… — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based;… — Jimenez Lai Aesthetics Copy Share Image
In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms… — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention… — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile,… — Jimenez Lai Ability Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would… — Jimenez Lai Architect Copy Share Image
I'm thinking about the idea of poetic license. People say that about certain writers: "Oh, the grammar sucks, but it's just the… — Jimenez Lai Acceptance Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Architect Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Architecture Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Architect Copy Share Image
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would… — Jimenez Lai Cities Copy Share Image
Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds. — Jimenez Lai Aesthetics Copy Share Image
I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist… — Jimenez Lai Communication Copy Share Image
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and… — Jimenez Lai Books Copy Share Image
Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its… — Jimenez Lai Art Copy Share Image
