I didn't have any interest in doing rich people's homes. I still don't.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

Cardboard is another material that's ubiquitous and everybody hates, yet when I made furniture with it everybody loved it.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.