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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

Topics: Confuse Content Designers Digital Important Indispensable Knife Like Many Project Software Some Tool Tools Utility Work

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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

Topics: Big Big Screen Drag Everywhere Go Having Live Love Me Pro Screen Times Transit Without I Love

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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

Topics: Because Book Books Cannot Cracking Experience Half Holding Kindle Left Less Like Love Making Only Open Physical Presence Process Read Resistance Right Than Weigh I Love

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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

Topics: Also Buildings Change Last Long Make Resilient Try

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My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Always Architecture Interest Multimedia Practice Space Strand Thought Work

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

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: About Architecture Art Art School Feeling Ideas School

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Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Always Architecture Definition Standing Still

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

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Am Architecture Been Forever Grateful Movement Women I Am

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Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Always Architects Been Construction Correctly Details Equals Executed Food Looking Site

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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

Topics: Aunts Been Family Father Grandparents Grew Had Holocaust Knowing Mother Mother And Father Never Out Through Uncles Up Wiped

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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