The people with money to build today are corporations - they are our popes and Medicis. The sense of pride is why they build.

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

We do pretty much whatever we want to.

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

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

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

Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me." Then when somebody does something different, real architecture, the push-back is amazing. People resist it. At first it's new and scary.