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

When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

I work from the inside out.