You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit.

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting.

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.