The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.

New York grew up before the automobile. And even though it's full of cars, its shape and form didn't get created around the automobile.

Infrastructure creates the form of a city and enables life to go on in a city, in a certain way.

We identify New York with the great bridges and tunnels and roadways and subway system and so forth.

I try to do everything from thinking about big issues like how a building fits into the larger stream of architectural history to practical issues such as how it feels to navigate your way through its interior.

For most of the nineteen-seventies, the official route map of the New York City subway system was a beautiful thing.

Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense almost every museum of our time is a child of the Guggenheim.