My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Picasso could use everyone's paintings and transform them into his own. He was using ideas from all of his contemporaries.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

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.

On certain projects, on big public projects, people definitely are interested in making them greener, but on smaller projects with tight budgets it can be harder.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain.