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

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

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

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

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?

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.

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.