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.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

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

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.

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

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