It takes a lot of effort to make a building look effortless..

I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 pr….

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources..

I was born in 1935, and as far back as I can remember, I was sketching designs. My first subject was an aircraft, which I imagined myself piloting..

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere..

You cannot separate the buildings out from the infrastructure of cites and the mobility of transit..

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown..

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t..

I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravi….

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buil….

Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, a….

I think you never stop learning..

Our object in life should be to accumulate a great number of grand questions to be asked and resolved in eternity..

I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might..

Didn't think her vision was consistent with the ORC, especially the way the Council wishes to work with the ORC. For example, with regard to the zoni….

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect..

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a build….

Architecture is an expression of values..

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them..

Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course….

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual c….