Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

Here we are surrounded by material that's being manufactured in unimaginable quantities worldwide and is used everywhere. I don't like it, no one likes it, and yet it's pervasive. We don't even see it.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

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

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.