With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

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.

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.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.