I think idiosyncrasy is great.

As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than…

— Elizabeth Diller

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

— Elizabeth Diller

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.

— Elizabeth Diller

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

— Elizabeth Diller

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.

— Elizabeth Diller

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.…

— Elizabeth Diller

I don't really know what 'starchitect' means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you're sought-after.

— Elizabeth Diller

We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen.

— Elizabeth Diller

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…

— Elizabeth Diller

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…

— Elizabeth Diller

Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

— Elizabeth Diller

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

— Elizabeth Diller

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.

— Elizabeth Diller

In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the…

— Elizabeth Diller

As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

— Elizabeth Diller