But I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence, thin models become dominant.

I think any cancer patient, if you dig not too deeply, they want to live.

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

Cant you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe?