You've got to like the people you work with.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

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