I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

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

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

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

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