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

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

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

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