There are so many good architects today, really doing good work, I mean and you know, I could mention all my friends, you know, as people who I think are doing good work but there are a lot of people I don’t know. About four years ago, I remember or longer, I had to go to Chile. I was asked by the United States government to look at a site for the embassy in Chile and I went down there. I looked at the site and everything.

[Q] In Santiago?

Yeah, in Santiago and I met young Chilean architects who, you know, were adamant that New York, Washington was not a place that was well thought about among the people. They felt abandoned by the United States but I met some really good young Chilean architects doing terrific work.

[Q] That's a big surprise - yeah exactly...

Under, you know, under this...

[Q] Nobody knows about this Chilean architecture. Santiago is a fabulous city.

Yeah, wonderful, I wouldn't have know about it otherwise and you know, they’re so, there are people doing really interesting work.

[Q] Out of the curcuit. The circuit is really the circuit you know. Its the London, Milan, New York kind of... 

Yeah but yesterday, two young women from New Zealand came to talk to me, I don't know why they came but they came and so I talked with them for awhile and... and I said to them, you know, I have no idea what’s happening in architecture in New Zealand. And they said, you know, there’s an enormous influence and an enormous respect for my work. They’re really plugged in but we don’t know what they’re doing. I mean they, they get, you know, the information.

[Q] Yes, it's amazing. It certainly happens... we go to places that we hardly know about on the map, in a sense. And they know everything about you.

Exactly, right, exactly. I felt embarrassed, you know, that, I mean, they knew more about me than you do.

[Q] That's amazing.

So, I think that’s very encouraging, myself, I think it’s extremely encouraging that all of this is going on at this moment because it was... it didn't used to be that way.