“What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.” PeopleWayUsedCultureInterestingCitiesArchitectureDiggingOther CulturesArchaeologyDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. There are nuanced senses that only people from the region can understand, and no amount of globalization can change that. It's almost like a maxim of a sorts, when you think about language, the way that people speak in a location. It does happen with architects, in terms of how they engage cities.” PeopleThinkingSpeakLanguageTermHeroArchitectGlobalizationImpressiveVery Impressive Author: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 poetic license." We accept it as being an art form of sorts: the incorrect rearrangement of meaningful things. Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary. We're just making sounds out of our mouths if we don't both accept that what I'm saying has very significant meanings, and I'm accurately targeting what vocabulary I use and how I arrange each word.” PeopleThinkingArtLiteratureAcceptingAcceptanceMeaningfulSignificantRelyPoetic Author: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 of technology, but I still have a hard time believing that we're going to stop speaking to each other. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. It's going to continue to create a cultural affect where people will be able to understand something beyond function that may otherwise be foreign to them.” PeopleBelieveTermTechnologyChangedCommunicationRateArchitectureHard Times Author:Jimenez Lai