Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

And I realized, when I'd come in to the meetings with these corrugated metal and chain link stuff, and people would just look at me like I'd just landed from Mars. But I couldn't do anything else. That was my response to the people and the time.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.