To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.