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

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

You've got to like the people you work with.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.