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.

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

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

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

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

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

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.