To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline.

We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about abstract ideas.

I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.