“If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.” IfsKindCountryFeelingsSpeakLanguageCommunicationArchitectureLocalsSensationsRepublicForeign CountriesCzechCzech Republic Author: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; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.” KindFormPracticeFocusStudentsProjectsDrivenVisualsExplorationFormalShockingAestheticsDiscouraging Author:Jimenez Lai
“The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.” KindRealSleepBreakObsessionContinuingTaking A Break Author: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 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 the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn't force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.” ThinkingWritingKindCultureAttentionArchitecturePay AttentionMake SenseHelpful Author:Jimenez Lai
“I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.” ThinkingWorldKindRealReasonRealityImaginationPhilosopherArchitectureMake SenseConstructionArchitectConcrete Author:Jimenez Lai