The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

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.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

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

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