Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There’s no greater satisfaction.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

If your thirst for knowledge is strong enough, you will find the waters to satisfy it.

Love the ones who understand you and forget the ones that don't.

If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.

Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

You make me feel like I have wings when you touch me.

The market is in the process of correcting itself.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

We cannot fight new wars with old weapons.