All these corporate reports say they want zero carbon. Well that is ridiculous, because you are not telling us what you are, you are telling us what you are not.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

We are not a green standard, we are a quality standard. We're different, we're multi dimensional.

You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.