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

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

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.

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.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

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.

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?