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

You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

There is an order to our environment, a broader order.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

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