I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

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

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

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