I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive it as beautiful and rational. Clarity is a worthwhile quality.

I was brought up to reuse things.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

All clients think that they are architects.

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

To be consumed with passion is to be gallant to discover

Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.

Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

The entire customer or user experience - from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support - is going digital.

I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.

Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.