Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

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.

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

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

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.