The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

A new idea is obsolete in seconds, right? I just said it and now it's obsolete.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.