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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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