I'm a do-gooder liberal.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

People live and work in uninspiring environments, but look inside those rooms. Look at the painted walls and the decorations. People rebel even in the most controlled office environment in which they're not allowed to do anything. You see the little bulletin board in front of a person's desk with their photos, clippings, cartoons and whatever else.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

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

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.