Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible.

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and the game is culturally intertwined with our calendar. We don't go back to college for the college. We go back for a football game, and, yes, we even call that 'homecoming.'

I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.