Democracy Is A Problem And

The Thing Is, I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work.

Ideas Exist In The Marketplace; They Are Thrown Out For Everyone To Use.

Architecture Should Speak Of Its Time And Place, But Yearn For Timelessness.

My Father Was An Urchin That Lived In Hell's Kitchen. He Was Part Of A Family Of Nine. I Mean, There Were Times That Were Better And Worse, But Mostly, By The Time We Got To L.a., They'd Lost Whatever They Had. And It Was A Sad Time. And Both He And I Became Truck Drivers For Different Companies.

Ninety Percent Of The Buildings We Live In And Around Aren't Architecture. No, That's Not Right - 98 Percent.