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 work from the inside out.

I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

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

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.