Your best work is your expression of yourself.

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

In Tokyo, London or Los Angeles people go into McDonald's and the restaurants are identical and people are comfortable. It's unthreatening.

I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

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

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

I'm of two minds about doing any interviews these days. It seems a lot of the world is out to play gotcha with me. I guess they always go after people these days. It's sport.