Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things. — 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 necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise. — 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
I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share
