The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offe….

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to d….

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning..

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs..

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild Wes….

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a s….

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights….

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt..

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands….