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

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

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.