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You Have To Do Every Detail On Every Bloody Piece Of The Building. You Have To Know How The Engineering Works. You Have To Know How The Fittings Go Together. You Have To Master The Mechanical, Electrical, Acoustical - Everything.

I Think You've Got To Accept That Certain Things Are In Process That You Can't Change, That You Can't Overwhelm. The Chaos Of Our Cities, The Randomness Of Our Lives, The Unpredictability Of Where You're Going To Be In Ten Years From Now - All Of Those Things Are Weighing On Us, And Yet There Is A Certain Glimmer Of Control. If You Act A Certain Way, And Talk A Certain Way, You're Going To Draw Certain Forces To You.

The Thing Is, I Hate The Celebrity Architect Thing. I Just Do My Work.

It Should Begin Much Earlier With Arts Education In The American School System, Which Is Sadly Deficient.

There Are People Who Design Buildings That Are Not Technically And Financially Good, And There Are Those Who Do. Two Categories - Simple.