I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.