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I like building.

I love architecture.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Building is just skilled labor, I suppose. It's a lot of work. I don't mind other people building them, but the way things go together and are made is interesting to me; I like that a lot.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.