Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

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

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.