My interest was always to do interdisciplinary wor... -Elizabeth Diller

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

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Elizabeth Diller is an American architect known for her innovative and cutting-edge designs. She is a founding partner of the architectural firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and her projects have received widespread acclaim for their creativity.

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We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecti...

Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics,...

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 i...

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...

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 ...

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

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the ...

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

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt....

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

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We work with the Mexican authorities. We have our own intelligence architecture. And we are aware of the involvement of smuggling organizations in irr...

I don't know if I'll go back into medicine. As much as I love it and went to school for it, my passion has always been in real estate, development, in...

Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture....

Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty....

I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has quite a signifi...

I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of inspiration from other ...

I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and am...

I've always been a good student, made good enough grades to do well, and enjoyed a lot of different subjects. It wasn't until I went to architecture s...

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This is a look, a part of Australia we don't see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It's really beautiful and there's a fe...