When I moved to America, everybody was asking, 'Why the hell are you going to America? It's over; you should be going east.' But it turned out our timing was miraculous.
I think if I would have started BIG in America, I would probably never have called it BIG. There was nothing but a little bit of local small country humor in the idea.
All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
We can engineer a building and design a building with least reliance on active machinery to make it inhabitable.
Our cities are not polluted or congested because they have to be. They are what they are because that's how we made them.
