“My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.” ActionDecisionClassStruggleMy FamilyWorking ClassAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Richard Rodriguez
“But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.” ThinkingMenWellsSaidRealYoungCultureLiteratureStudyEconomicMetsMajorityUniversityRidiculousYoung ManMinoritiesItalianRenaissance Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.” RealMatterHappensActionCertainRaceClassGroupsMembersNo Matter WhatChosenMinoritiesOur SocietyLaddersAffirmative ActionAffirmativeDisadvantaged Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” MindPhilosophySeriesAgreementSubjectiveAestheticsDisagreement Author:Jimenez Lai
“As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.” SchoolIndividualMy OwnTrainingBuiltPhilosophicalArchitectureDebateVisualsDiscourseAestheticsRefined Author:Jimenez Lai
“Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.” HappensBad ThingsMorphology Author:Jimenez Lai
“The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.” IdeasLanguageMorphology Author:Jimenez Lai
“I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.” ThinkingLooksLanguageCommunicationArchitectureArchitect Author:Jimenez Lai
“In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.” ThinkingOrderLanguageEvolutionDrawsArchitectureCopiesArchitectOngoingConstraintsBylaws Author:Jimenez Lai
“I think regionalism was a little easier before mass communication was made possible. This is not to say that regionalism doesn't exist anymore. I think it does.” ThinkingLittlesDoeMadeCommunicationEasierMassMass CommunicationRegionalism Author:Jimenez Lai