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

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.