My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The only way to do that is to live more densely than Americans are living right now.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.