Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.