I hate digital calendars, so I use pen and paper or the palm of my hand for my daily schedule. I get much more satisfaction out of physically crossing things out than deleting. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
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 Read Quote
We’re always taught that we’re building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women’s movement. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
Architecture is a technology. And it’s involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture – including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. Elizabeth Diller Read Quote
