If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.