It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

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