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.

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.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

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

I was brought up to reuse things.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.