Quotes by Jimenez Lai

Jimenez Lai

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Agreement

Mind

Philosophy

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

Drawing

Language

Meaningful

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Architecture

Ends

The End Of The Day

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I’ve built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.

Philosophical

School

Training

Communication requires cultural context, and technology facilitates our ability to cross-reference ideas over time. Charles Moore were saying: Enough with the sterile, context-less architecture. Enough with the functional-minded frame of operation. How about a little mess? How about a little, let’s say, syntax? A little quotation using history? How about some other meanings or symbols? I think that’s the only logical reaction when you have to thoughtfully manage the communication of a lot of information.

Communication

Technology

Thinking

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

Cities

Hero

Impressive

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. There are nuanced senses that only people from the region can understand, and no amount of globalization can change that. It’s almost like a maxim of a sorts, when you think about language, the way that people speak in a location. It does happen with architects, in terms of how they engage cities.

Hero

People

Thinking

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

Able

Believe

Thinking

I don’t really know what’s going to happen 10,000 years from now. We’ve been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let’s go back to the cave paintings: I think the moment that someone landed a charcoal on a wall to describe reality, that’s language already – that happened on a vertical surface, which, even though they didn’t build it, somehow we could understand it as architecture because there’s a cavity that separates the inside and outside. That’s 40,000 years in the past.

Past

Reality

Wall

I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture – I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn’t force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.

Culture

Thinking

Writing

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Able

Absurd

Acceptance

Accepted

Achieve

Agreement

Architecture

Art

Artist

Bad Things

Believe

Body

Bylaws

Cities

Communication

Country

Culture

Czech Republic

Diagrams

Drawing

Ends

Focus

Form

Happens

Hard Times

Hero

House

Ideas

Imagination

Important

Impressive

Interesting

Language

Littles

Looks

Meaningful

Meaningless

Messages

Mind

Moments

Morphology

Mystery Novels

Order

Other Cultures

Paper

Past

People

Philosopher

Philosophical

Philosophy

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Quotes by Jimenez Lai

Jimenez Lai

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I’ve built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

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