In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

The present is filled with flotsam and irony and chaos and disorder in all arenas, political and sociological. I think we have to work in the present even if it's awkward, even if it's not necessarily good, even if we don't understand it ourselves. You only find out 10, maybe 20 years later what was going on.

I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

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

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.

I think you've got to accept that certain things are in process that you can't change, that you can't overwhelm. The chaos of our cities, the randomness of our lives, the unpredictability of where you're going to be in ten years from now - all of those things are weighing on us, and yet there is a certain glimmer of control. If you act a certain way, and talk a certain way, you're going to draw certain forces to you.