Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their environment.

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.

I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary society.

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.