In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.