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Elizabeth Diller

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Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, 'Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,' she responds, 'Here's your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?' Elizabeth Diller

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Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. Elizabeth Diller

Architecture Definition Always Still Standing

We like to take impossible things and actually make them happen. Elizabeth Diller

Impossible Take Like Make Happen Them Actually Things

I think idiosyncrasy is great. Elizabeth Diller

Great Think

Many tools are indispensable for my work, from a utility knife to parametric-modeling software, like Digital Project. But it's important not to confuse the tool for the content, as some designers under 30 do. Elizabeth Diller

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We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change. Elizabeth Diller

Change Try Long Also Make Buildings Resilient Last

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. Elizabeth Diller

Art Architecture School Feeling About Ideas Art School

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. Elizabeth Diller

Grateful Women Architecture Has-Been Am Been Forever Movement

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. Elizabeth Diller

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As a kid, I imagined being an artist. Elizabeth Diller

Kid Artist Being Imagined

I can't imagine having a spouse who is not an architect. It's hard to put myself in the shoes of other couples where each partner brings totally different things from their day to the table. Elizabeth Diller

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable. Elizabeth Diller

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We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. Elizabeth Diller

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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. Elizabeth Diller

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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good. Elizabeth Diller

Good Someone New Yorker Goes Being Want New Yorker Patron

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time. Elizabeth Diller

Time You Building Believe Just Where Planning

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration. Elizabeth Diller

Project Inspiration Joyful Always Each

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. Elizabeth Diller

Architecture Studying Intellectually Bankrupt

I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. Elizabeth Diller

Thought Sense Architect Never Going Conventional

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