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Elizabeth Diller

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it’s always an inspiration.

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

I don’t really know what ‘starchitect’ means. I take it as a pejorative because it means that you’re sought-after.

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

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

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.

– Elizabeth Diller

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.

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

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

Elizabeth Diller

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

Elizabeth Diller

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

Elizabeth Diller

As a kid, I imagined being an artist.

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

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

Elizabeth Diller

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

– Elizabeth Diller

Elizabeth Diller

Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, ‘Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,’ she responds, ‘Here’s your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?’

– Elizabeth Diller

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