A 1967 house in Dallas can be replaced with another one; an 1867 house in New Orleans can't.

This is our Katrina dividend.

Gatherings like this allow us to begin to look at the whole range, from individual buildings, to larger symbolic buildings, to the landscape itself.

Sober and not gay? Perfect. Just finish what you started - if it never stops.

Peter's essay on matter-of-factedness sucked big time but how can you not love Peter. He's such a sweet boy.

Didn't you say that you have to be consistent? Well how come you didn't show up at the movies, he didn't show up at crazy wisdom and how come every time you're in the school of architecture-I just can't get in?

The creation of this sugarplum fairy vision of what a city looks like or can look like is an unnecessary, and I think, slightly insulting view of human intelligence.

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.