I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

When you build a beautiful building, people love it. And the most sustainable building in the world is the one that’s loved.

The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

Knowledge comes from learning - Ignorance is born from not wanting to know the difference!

You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

Enthusiasm cannot be a continuous state. It comes in waves.

I am proud of being a Greek of the diaspora.

Bob Dylan was the source of pop music's unpredictability in the Sixties. Never as big a record-seller as commonly imagined, his importance was first aesthetic and social, and then as an influence.

You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

I leave my circle tight in keep my family close.