I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

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.

My buildings are all on budget.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.