It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

I can’t just decide myself what’s being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don’t get a lot of work sometimes.

I like the idea of collaboration – it pushes you. It’s a richer experience...

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories – simple.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work – though not consciously.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.

Each project, I suffer like I’m starting over again in life. There’s a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

People ask me if I’m an artist or an architect. But I think they’re the same.