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I have a real survivor's instinct.

~Elizabeth Diller

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As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

~Elizabeth Diller

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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

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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

Topics: Architect Brings Couples Day Different Different Things Each Hard Having Imagine Myself Other Partner Put Shoes Spouse Table Things Totally Where Who

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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

Topics: Buildings Creating Different Exercise Intellectual Made Make Me Out Pair Repeat Slightly Thesis Things Uncomfortable Were

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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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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

Topics: Architecture Conditions Cultural Different Economics Including Involved Networks Politics Produce Social Systems Technology

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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

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

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Believe Building Just Planning Time Where You I Believe I Believe In

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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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