An Architect Is Given A Program, Budget,

We Have Always Created - Music, Literature, Art, Dance. The Art Around Us - Or Lack Of It - May Be A Measure Of How We're Doing As Individuals And As A Civilization, So Maybe We Should Be Worried.

One Of My Unsung Heroes Is Erich Mendelsohn. I Met Him When I Was A Student And He Was A Cranky Old Man And Very Unpleasant. But If You Go To His Einstein Tower In Potsdam, Germany You See An Enormous Intellect At Work With A Language That Was Personal And New. It Has A Sense Of Urban Design And Of Theater And Procession I Hadn't Seen Before.

Each Project, I Suffer Like I'm Starting Over Again In Life. There's A Lot Of Healthy Insecurity That Fuels This Stuff.

Many People Put A Green Button On Their Collar And Feel Good, Just Like A Lot Of People Put An American Flag On Their Lapels And Feel Patriotic. It's Not Enough.i'm Not Dismissing It.

I Know I Draw Without Taking My Pen Off The Page. I Just Keep Going, And That My Drawings I Think Of Them As Scribbles. I Don't Think They Mean Anything To Anybody Except To Me, And Then At The End Of The Day, The End Of The Project, They Wheel Out These Little Drawings And They're Damn Close To What The Finished Building Is And It's The Drawing.