But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

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

The primary factor is proportions.

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

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.

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