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In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable.
Elizabeth Diller
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We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.
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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. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.
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Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.
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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.
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I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.
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I don't really know what 'starchitect' means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you're sought-after.
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Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.
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I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.
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As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.
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When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.
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I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense.
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