Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.