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.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.