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

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

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

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

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me."

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.