My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.

The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets, river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together.

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.