Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it.

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.

It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.

Ideas exist in the marketplace; they are thrown out for everyone to use.

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