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.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

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

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.