Architecture Is Art, Nothing Else.

The First Complete Sentence Out Of My Mouth Was Probably That Line About Consistency Being The Hobgoblin Of Small Minds.

Ninety-eight Percent Are Boxes, Which Tells Me That A Lot Of People Are In Denial. We Live And Work In Boxes. People Don't Even Notice That. Most Of What's Around Us Is Banal. We Live With It. We Accept It As Inevitable. People Say, "this Is The World The Way It Is, And Don't Bother Me." Then When Somebody Does Something Different, Real Architecture, The Push-back Is Amazing. People Resist It. At First It's New And Scary.

Pick Very Few Objects And Place Them Exactly.

I Hate Vacations. If You Can Build Buildings, Why Sit On The Beach?

I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work. The Press Comes Up With This Stuff And It Sticks. I Hate The Word Starchitect. Stuff Like That Comes From Mean-spirited, Untalented Journalists. It's Demeaning.