There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

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

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.