If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

I'm inspired by a lot of stuff. I always was interested in sculpture and painting and music and literature and all those things. There's no one thing.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

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.

Everybody's an artist. Unfortunately we don't treat them as such.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.