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.

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.

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

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.

For ye will know not love, if ye knoweth not your God.

There has to be something we can do to undo whatever it is we have done.

We should use this public sphere and redefine - beyond China's borders - what a government is allowed to do, where its powers end and where the realm of a citizen's privacy begins.

We love our habits more than our income, often more than our life.

Great is his faith who dares believe his own eyes.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them.

This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.