This thing with being lovers, it isn't like being married.
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.
Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.
We should celebrate variety rather than conformity and allow people to express themselves. That we don't is more of our denial.
I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.
I was working in, being a single parent with a grieving child of five years old. It was horrendous. I couldn't go out much, because I had my daughter to look after. So people used to come round, and Tony Harrington from The Wire came round.
A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.
Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!