“Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.” Quote by 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 arrangements of meaningful things.” WellsLanguageDrawingMeaningfulConventionsArrangementsMisusedMeaningful Things Author:Jimenez Lai
“The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either.” TermRolesCommunicationArchitecture Author:Jimenez Lai
“Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.” BodyArtistEnjoyMessages Author:Jimenez Lai
“I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.” ThinkingBelieveAbleIndividualI BelieveArchitectureOutputArtifacts Author:Jimenez Lai
“It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.” RealityPoliticalPhilosophicalResponsePracticalsConstructs Author:Jimenez Lai
“The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.” LittlesMomentsForcePaperOrganize Author:Jimenez Lai
“I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.” ThinkingWorldRealityUnderstoodArchitectureConstruction Author: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 well as the making of worlds.” WorldWellsReasonPhilosopherMake SenseReason WhyArchitect Author:Jimenez Lai
“Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.” WorldAchieveSettingAbsurdSettings Author:Jimenez Lai