There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.