You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

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

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes 500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.

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.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.