“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” Quote by 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
“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.” KnowsCitiesHeroLocalsContributionTraveledImpressiveVery Impressive Author:Jimenez Lai
“I had all this anxiety about what it meant to be a minority. My professors - the same men who taught me the intricacies of language - just shied away from the issue. They didn't want to talk about it, other than to suggest I could be a "role model" to other Hispanics - when I went back to my barrio, I suppose.” MenWantLanguageRolesIssuesTaughtAnxietyModelsMinoritiesMeant To BeProfessorsRole ModelsIntricacy Author:Richard Rodriguez
“The dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.” IfsWayHouseRoomsEnvironmentBuildingProgramArchitectureTinyVillageLinksInteriorsBathroomDiningDining RoomsTiny Houses Author:Jimenez Lai
“It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.” WritingImportantNovelMysteryMystery NovelsTakeaways Author:Jimenez Lai