To me, the drive for monumentality is as inbred as the desire for food and sex, regardless of how we denigrate it. Monuments differ in different periods. Each age has its own.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

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

There's no worse feeling than seeing my buildings and realizing the mistakes.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

When a building is as good as that one, f#*@ the art.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.