When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

All clients think that they are architects.