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

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

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

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

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

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

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.