City Quote by Elizabeth Diller

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