Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.