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'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

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

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

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.