We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.

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.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

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

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