I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

Naturalism and materialism mean essentially the same thing.

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Maybe, just maybe, we shall at last come to care for the most important, most challenging, surely the most satisfying of all architectural creations: building cities for people to live in.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.