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

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

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.

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

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

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

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