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.

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

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

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

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

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.