In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.

Form must never trump function. Some objects are made to look so smooth, you don't know where to pick them up or how to turn them on. If I'm designing a garlic press or cheese grater, I need my hand to fit comfortably on it. I like to know, instinctively, how to use it.

A good part of this expansion is a direct function of the decline in real equity premiums. That cannot go on indefinitely.