Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

The best way not to encounter America's health care system is not to have to encounter it.

With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I've been able to do that.

We must form public-private partnerships to collectively improve children's health.