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

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.

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

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.