From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.