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 Image
I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to… — 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 Image
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 Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai 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 Copy Share Image
Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. — Jimenez Lai 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 learn about… — Jimenez Lai 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
