Author: Elizabeth Diller

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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.

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

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

- Elizabeth Diller

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

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

- Elizabeth Diller

I think idiosyncrasy is great.

I think idiosyncrasy is great.

- Elizabeth Diller

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

- Elizabeth Diller

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.

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

In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.

In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.

- Elizabeth Diller

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

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

- Elizabeth Diller

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.

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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