Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.