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

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.

I'm inspired by looking at art, by looking at precedent. Looking is what you have to do if you want to make things, so you develop a critical eye.

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.

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

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 was brought up to reuse things.