For me, every day is a new thing.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

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.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

For me, every day is a new thing.

Generally people are afraid. They pretend they aren’t; it’s part of the denial. We’re all part of it. As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what’s comfortable, and we’re afraid of the different. We’re afraid of change. It happened in Los Angeles, too, when the first models of Disney Hall were shown. You should have heard the outcry from the public, critics and press. It was called “broken crockery,” “outlandish” and blah blah blah. Of course now the feeling is different.

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.