Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is air conditioned with big machines.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.