I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Life is nothing but an empty space filled with memories from beginning to end.

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

Everything you know gained from experience

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate.

you're doomed at being you.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

I'm convinced the Beatles are partly responsible for the fall of Communism.

To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.