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

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.