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

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

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

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

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