The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.