Jimenez Lai

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

— Jimenez Lai

The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.

— Jimenez Lai

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

— Jimenez Lai

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

— Jimenez Lai

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

— Jimenez Lai

I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

— Jimenez Lai

The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.

— Jimenez Lai

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

— Jimenez Lai

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between…

— Jimenez Lai

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around…

— Jimenez Lai

The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

— Jimenez Lai

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

— Jimenez Lai

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

— Jimenez Lai

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would…

— Jimenez Lai

It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

— Jimenez Lai

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

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and…

— Jimenez Lai

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

I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention…

— Jimenez Lai

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

— Jimenez Lai

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

— Jimenez Lai

Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

— Jimenez Lai

Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its…

— Jimenez Lai

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and…

— Jimenez Lai

In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not…

— Jimenez Lai

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to…

— Jimenez Lai

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

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

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

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

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

To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert…

— Jimenez Lai

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would…

— Jimenez Lai

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects…

— Jimenez Lai

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

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

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

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