Cities Quote by Jimenez Lai

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

— Jimenez Lai

The world is meaningless and therefore it's funny.

— Jimenez Lai

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

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

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

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

— Jimenez Lai

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

— 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

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

— Jimenez Lai

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

— 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