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.

The primary factor is proportions.

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

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

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.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.