When you agree to collaborate, you agree to jump off a cliff holding hands with everyone, hoping the resourcefulness of each will insure that you all land on your feet.

It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

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.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.