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

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.I'm not dismissing it.

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.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.