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If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

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

Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

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

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.

I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.

Modern buildings of our time are so huge that one must group them. Often the space between these buildings is as important as the buildings themselves.

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.