If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to know how the fittings go together. You have to master the mechanical, electrical, acoustical - everything.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Your best work is your expression of yourself.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

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.