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.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

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

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

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

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.