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" I have always thought that L.A. is a motor city that developed linear downtowns. "

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

" 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. "

" I don't know how to overcome this perception that I'm extravagant. "

" My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head. "

" My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works. "

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

" My only extravagance in life is my sailboat. I'm bonkers about that, but other than that, I don't spend money on myself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "