“Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical pos...” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quote

“Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.”

“Every How is carried by a What.”

“Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.”

“When I was four, five, my granddad took me over to the park to play basketball. There was no way I was getting a ball into the net, but he said we stayed there until I got it in. I always remember that. He used to say to me, 'When you think you're going to do something, you won't ever stop.' I think that's the person I've been all my life.”

“All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.”

“A lot of people tell me, 'You need to go here,' or, 'You need to go there.' But I've been around elite coaches all my life. I know what an elite coach looks like. When I hear people say I need to go somewhere else, I just tell them I know what a good coach looks like, and I have great coaches.”