I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

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

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

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.