There are places that are so designed they're unlivable.
We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.
I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.
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."