I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.

It started at the rear of the structure, and it was contained to those two buildings,