My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.

Your next victory is behind your next test.

On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake.

Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.

The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

Everything balled up into one: Beat Mexico and qualify. There's no better scenario.

marriages do not take root in the presence of witnesses but only in the consciousness of the persons involved.

What's wrong with hip-hop [is that] it became so one-dimensional; it became like a businessman thing. It's run out of creativity. It went so far off about making money that now everyone can do it.