I'm a passionate person, and I care deeply about the work I do. It's very, very important to me that it's well received.

- Peter Clewes

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

- Peter Clewes

It's really important that we not replicate what came before us, but we do something of our own, that's reflective of our own time, of contemporary s…

- Peter Clewes

When we're dealing with historic buildings, we don't replicate, but we try to be subordinate and be deferential to them.

- Peter Clewes

Public commentary absolutely influences my work.

- Peter Clewes

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond to public e…

- Peter Clewes

The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their envir…

- Peter Clewes

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then …

- Peter Clewes

Yesterday is always better than today and the fear of tomorrow. I don't think there's anything absolutely wrong with that, it's just the way we are. …

- Peter Clewes