I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

You really have to have a goal.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.