In my own work, I'd say I'm a classicist, but I look everywhere for my solutions. I don't study the toilet-living habits of my clients, although that's a popular approach. First, I think of every building in history that has been similar in purpose. Then I think of the functional program - that's a major part of the study.

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Early unsuccessess shouldn't bother anybody because it happens to absolutely everybody.

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner.

[Evolution] doesn't mean God-guided, gradual creation. It means unguided, purposeless change. The Darwinian theory doesn't say that God created slowly. It says that naturalistic evolution is the creator, and so God had nothing to do with it.

The future of architecture is culture.