That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.

I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns.