Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a comple….

The corruption of the American soul is consumerism..

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it'….

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems..

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul..

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. Yo….

The Irish and British, they love satire, its a large part of the culture..

When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's pr….

Very rarely are we directing or cutting someone elses boards. We concept, direct, shoot, animate and edit almost everything that comes through here..

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality..

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back it's about enab….

What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years..

I'm not an expert, but I want to be..

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way ….

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea..

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to gras….

The latest page I've been working is about the organization of the pantheon of the gods. Who's indebted to whom, how they are related, who screwed wh….

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the bo….

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city..

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whethe….

I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else..