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

A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.

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.

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.

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.

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

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.