Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

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.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.