Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.