Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

People are deeply nourished by the process of creating wholeness.

When they have a choice, people will always gravitate to those rooms which have light on two sides, and leave the rooms which are lit only from one side unused and empty.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in places that were built centuries ago

When you slow down and focus on completing one task at a time, your life will automatically diversify.

Common Core is a big win for education.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

Selection is the invention of the landscape painter.

Some of the most rewarding times my brothers and I have are when all of us get together, and we can see what we've been building genetically and culturally.

This is an award I couldn't have won on my own. I can't thank these guys enough. These are my guys, these are my brothers.

To place man properly at the present time, he stands somewhere between the angels and the French.

If you aren't breaking tackles, you aren't doing anything.

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.