We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

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

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.