The Back Of Saint Peter's Is One

I Would Like To Make A Building As Intellectually Driven As It Is Sculptural And As Positive As It Would Be Acceptable To Hope.

One Of My Unsung Heroes Is Erich Mendelsohn. I Met Him When I Was A Student And He Was A Cranky Old Man And Very Unpleasant. But If You Go To His Einstein Tower In Potsdam, Germany You See An Enormous Intellect At Work With A Language That Was Personal And New. It Has A Sense Of Urban Design And Of Theater And Procession I Hadn't Seen Before.

People Say, "this Is The World The Way It Is, And Don't Bother Me." Then When Somebody Does Something Different, Real Architecture, The Push-back Is Amazing. People Resist It. At First It's New And Scary.

Generally People Are More Impressed With The Services And The Comfort Issues Than The Design.

Everyone Has A Desire, If Not A Need, To Use Their Individual Signatures. Whenever People Meet To Talk About A Project, Even Stuffy Old Businessmen, They Say They Want To Create Something New.