I like English parks.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

My buildings are more famous than me.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

I think architecture has to be a gift.

I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.