What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

I am just relating to the world we live in. I see some order in it, even though it looks like mush.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.