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 Read Quote
In a progressively privatised city, the defence of public space, the production of new public space, and saving what is public really for the public is very important. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don’t just do one building at a time. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
I don’t really know what ‘starchitect’ means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you’re sought-after. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
As a student, I hadn’t really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me – rather than me growing into it. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I can’t live without my 15-inch MacBook Pro. I drag it everywhere I go. I love having a big screen with me at all times, especially in transit. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
