I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start, or else your work is just a story.

In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.

The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

My favorite project is always the next one.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.