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.

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

Yesterday is always better than today and the fear of tomorrow. I don't think there's anything absolutely wrong with that, it's just the way we are. So when people are presented with something new, there is a very visceral reaction.

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.

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.

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.