As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

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.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.