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" Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. "

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" I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull. "

" My buildings are all on budget. "

" If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it. "

" Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want. "

" Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. "

" There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up. "

" You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. "

" Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. "

" I don't think all buildings have to be iconic, but the history of the world has shown us that cultures build iconic buildings for their major public buildings. "

" Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. "

" Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. "

" I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale. "

" I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not. "

" There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes. "

" This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off. "

" 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. "

" The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it. "

" Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. "

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

" One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. "

" I was in Peru and visited a building near Lima built by the Incas. It was low in height, with no windows at all, but all the way in the back there was air movement. And I couldn't figure out how they'd done it; it was incredible. "

" On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder. "

" 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. "

" The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that. "

" A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. "

" I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. "

" I would like to make a building as intellectually driven as it is sculptural and as positive as it would be acceptable to hope. "

" For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it. "

" I make a model of the site. There are some obvious things: where the entrance should be, where the cars have to go in. You start to get the scale of it. You understand the client's needs, and what the client is hoping for and yearning for. "

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