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.

All clients think that they are architects.

To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.

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

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.