I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

Generally people are more impressed with the services and the comfort issues than the design.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.