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.

It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless.

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

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.

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

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

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.