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.

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.

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.

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.

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

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