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Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.