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

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

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

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

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.