To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

I never like things that don't look nice. It's really that simple.

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.