Pick Very Few Objects And Place Them

Architects Are Pretty Much High-class Whores. We Can Turn Down Projects The Way They Can Turn Down Some Clients, But We've Both Got To Say Yes To Someone If We Want To Stay In Business.

I Like The Thought That What We Are To Do On This Earth Is Embellish It For Its Greater Beauty, So That Oncoming Generations Can Look Back To The Shapes We Leave Here And Get The Same Thrill That I Get In Looking Back At Theirs - At The Parthenon, At Chartres Cathedral.

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.

Maybe, Just Maybe, We Shall At Last Come To Care For The Most Important, Most Challenging, Surely The Most Satisfying Of All Architectural Creations: Building Cities For People To Live In.

I Get Between Nine And Ten Hours Of Sleep. Go To Bed At 8:30 And Get Up At 6:00 Or 6:30 If I Oversleep.