The best architecture comes from a synthesis of all the elements that separately comprise a building: the structure that holds it up; the services that allow it to function; the ecology of the building - its relationship to the surroundings; the quality of natural light; the symbolism of the form; the relationship of the building to the skyline.

I don't want to be compared to anyone. I want to be the first version of myself, not the next version of someone else.

In a state, one man's liberty ends where another's begins.

"To write is to resist. To write is to exist."