Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

When you were a kid, if you went to the Montreal Forum or a hockey game at Maple Leaf Gardens, which I did, there was a great feeling. The new stadiums don't have it. Why don't they have it? Building codes.

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

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.