I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

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.

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.

Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.