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

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

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.

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

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.