Everybody's An Artist. Unfortunately We Don't Treat

I Don't Make Things With My Hands, Although I Studied Woodworking And Made Furniture.

Chicago's One Of The Rare Places Where Architecture Is More Visible.

Most Of What's Around Us Is Banal. We Live With It. We Accept It As Inevitable.

One Of My Unsung Heroes Is Erich Mendelsohn. I Met Him When I Was A Student And He Was A Cranky Old Man And Very Unpleasant. But If You Go To His Einstein Tower In Potsdam, Germany You See An Enormous Intellect At Work With A Language That Was Personal And New. It Has A Sense Of Urban Design And Of Theater And Procession I Hadn't Seen Before.

You Never Build The Perfect Building. Only Allah Is Perfect. Life Is Such. You Make Decisions On Conclusions, Then Some Guy Invents Something Else And The World Changes. That's Comforting. There's No One Way To Use Museums, No One Way To Do Art. That Also Means There Is No One Way To Build Museums.