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" I work from the inside out. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

" When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also. "