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.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."