Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself.

I miss Juan and Peter. Now that I'm back there are no more Juan's and Peter's. I shouldn't have left for Singapore. Now that I'm back, I've lost them again. I miss being in the classroom. When is Juan going to turn into reed?

Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops.

This is the only place in America where the historic neighborhoods aren't the exception, it's the non-historic neighborhoods that are the exception.

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

The roof might be gone, or a giant oak tree has crashed through a window.

Didn't you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didn't show up at the movies, he didn't show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time you're in the school of architecture-I just can't get in?

I don't know what's left. Maybe part of it is there and part of it isn't.

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

New Orleans - along with San Francisco - is the greatest collection of 18th-, 19th- and early-20th-century residential architecture in the United States. You're talking about miles and miles of historic properties. But saving the historic context does not mean necessarily rebuilding everything in it. I don't think you build a bad 21st-century copy of a brilliant 19th-century building.