I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can’t change. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We’re always looking for details that haven’t been executed correctly. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn’t matter: it worked. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
