I was brought up to reuse things.

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.

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

So much of what makes a room great is how you enter and circulate through it, how it addresses the body.

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