I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.

Architecture is definitely a political act.

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.

When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty. I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.