Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Good design doesn't date.

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.