I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

When I came to America in the '60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I'd come here today.