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

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a do-gooder base; I was born and raised that way. I was for blacks, whites, Italians, Poles, whatever.

What I have learned about museum buildings is that buildings have to have iconic presentations. The position of the art museum vis-a-vis other civic buildings needs to be hierarchal in the community. It has to be equal to the library and the courthouse.

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.