It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.
Jimenez LaiI think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.
Jimenez LaiI 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.
Jimenez LaiThe dining room is a building; the bathroom is a building. If we scatter this single-program architecture inside of a domestic environment, we can link an interior urbanism in a way similar to a village or a township of tiny houses.
Jimenez LaiThe obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.
Jimenez LaiI think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.
Jimenez Lai