Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

We're physiologically wired differently.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

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