Jimenez Lai Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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.

  Jimenez Lai

  Hero, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Jimenez Lai

  Wall, Past, Reality

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• If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

  Jimenez Lai

  Country, Communication, Czech Republic

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• The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

  Jimenez Lai

  Ideas, Language, Morphology

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• I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

  Jimenez Lai

  Communication, Thinking, Looks

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• In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

  Jimenez Lai

  Thinking, Order, Bylaws

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• 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.

  Jimenez Lai

  Meaningful, Drawing, Language

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• The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in. How does German turn to Dutch, and how does Dutch turn to Anglo-Saxon and eventually English? Morphology is actually taking place through things like Twitter or GChat today, where we're changing how things are spelled, and those spellings are accepted as standard now. Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.

  Jimenez Lai

  Today, Language, Accepted

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