Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. "The client made me do this." "The city made me do this." "Oh, the budget." I don't believe that anymore.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

My father always told me that I was going to be a failure - I think he was more talking about himself, but I didn't know it at the time.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

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

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

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.