Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's surface.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.

What we used to say was whoever had the bow tie got to lead the band. There was never any jealousy.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

The emergence of consciousness, like the unfolding of a leaf, relies upon restraint.

You cannot meet today's crisis tomorrow.

I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.