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Ninety-eight Percent Are Boxes, Which Tells Me That A Lot Of People Are In Denial. We Live And Work In Boxes. People Don't Even Notice That. Most Of What's Around Us Is Banal. We Live With It. We Accept It As Inevitable. People Say, "this Is The World The Way It Is, And Don't Bother Me." Then When Somebody Does Something Different, Real Architecture, The Push-back Is Amazing. People Resist It. At First It's New And Scary.

I Think The Collectors Have Made An Enormous Contribution, Not Only To The Market But To Painters Themselves... These People That Buy, That Set Standards, Make Everyone Else Itch To Emulate.

I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work. The Press Comes Up With This Stuff And It Sticks. I Hate The Word Starchitect. Stuff Like That Comes From Mean-spirited, Untalented Journalists. It's Demeaning.

Houston Is Undoubtedly My Showcase City. I Saved All My Best Buildings For Houston.

The Practice Of Architecture Is The Most Delightful Of All Pursuits. Also, Next To Agriculture, It Is The Most Necessary To Man. One Must Eat, One Must Have Shelter. Next To Religious Worship Itself, It Is The Spiritual Handmaiden Of Our Deepest Convictions.