Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.
I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.
My favorite project is always the next one.
If I have a style, I am not aware of it.
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it - we got a lot of mail.
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.
My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.
We have a Boesendorfer piano that I play every day. It keeps my brain and my fingers active.
Celebrate Earth Day every day.