Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.