You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.