“I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.” Quote by 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
“The diagram of the house is a portrait of the family, a true portrait, whether it's sad or happy.” HousePortraitsDiagrams Author:Jimenez Lai
“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.” IdeasMatterNextWhiteClassTeachDoorsMiddleColorSkinsUniversityExpectedChosenMiddle ClassNeighborhoodPeculiarEmbarrassingSonnetRenaissanceEthnicityYaleSkin ColorYale University Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken.” PeopleThinkingKnowsStillsActionJobsRaceMistakenCrudeAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmative Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I don't think writers should be convenient examples. I don't think we should make people feel settled. I don't try to be a gadfly, but I do think that real ideas are troublesome. There should be something about my work that leaves the reader unsettled. I intend that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldTryingIdeasRealExampleReaderConvenientTroublesomeGadflies Author:Richard Rodriguez