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To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

Architecture theory is very interesting.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I love architecture.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

Building design isn't trendy.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I am but an architectural composer.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.