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

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice.

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

I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.