Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

There's no palette as rich as a garden. And the intensity of it - I make this statement all the time: You can't plan nature; you court her.

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent.

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?