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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

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

My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

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

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.