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

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

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.

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

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

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that.

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.