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

I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Everyone has a desire, if not a need, to use their individual signatures. Whenever people meet to talk about a project, even stuffy old businessmen, they say they want to create something new.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

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.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.