With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

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

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

Some cultures tried to stop people from expressing themselves. In Mao's China, for example, the Communists tried to stop individual expression. For them the payoff was a society of equality. The problem of course is that it didn't work.

Creativity is about play and a kind of willingness to go with your intuition. It's crucial to an artist. If you know where you are going and what you are going to do, why do it? I think I learned that from the artists, from my grandmother, from all the creative people I've spent time with over the years.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.