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

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

You have freedom, so you have to make choices - and at the point when I make a choice, the building starts to look like a Frank Gehry building. It's a signature.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

The rap on me on the street is the opposite - I'm impractical, I'm more expensive, it's too complicated and I run over budgets, which isn't true. None of that's true and there's plenty of documentation if anybody needs it.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.