That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it. People can say they like it or don't like it. They can argue about it, but it's yours.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

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.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.