I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

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

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is the infusion of a cultural dimension.