If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.

When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you."

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

If the room is friendly to a relationship between lecturer and audience, you feel everything - the tension, the appreciation. I think the audience feels it too.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Some people may say my curved panels look like sails. Well, I am a sailor, so I guess I probably do use that metaphor in my work - though not consciously.

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless.