I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.

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

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

If the general public demanded better, they'd get better, because the market­place responds to the public's needs and desires.