If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

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.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

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

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.