The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

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.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.