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.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that stuff.

I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

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