A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

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

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.