Know what it is that you are trying to find out.

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

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.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

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.