And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

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

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.