The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

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

I work from the inside out.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.