Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.