Sustainability Has Become An Ornament.

Beauty Isn't What I'm Primarily Interested In [in Architecture]. I Think Appropriateness Is More Important.

We Live In An Almost Perfect Stillness And Work With Incredible Urgency.

Any Architectural Project We Do Takes At Least Four Or Five Years, So Increasingly There Is A Discrepancy Between The Acceleration Of Culture And The Continuing Slowness Of Architecture.

Manhattan Has Generated A Shameless Architecture That Has Been Loved In Direct Proportion To Its Defiant Lack Of Self-hatred, Has Been Respected Exactly To The Degree That It Went Too Far.

In A Script, You Have To Link Various Episodes Together, You Have To Generate Suspense And You Have To Assemble Things - Through Editing, For Example. It's Exactly The Same In Architecture. Architects Also Put Together Spatial Episodes To Make Sequences.