I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
We have to base architecture on the environment.
You can't magic yourself back 10 years.
That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)
I like writing about biology, not doing it.
What I never overcame is a kind of shyness.
An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.
I had a dual role: designer and advocate.
Buildings are forms of performances.
And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.
I turned pro and won Rookie of the Year on the South African Tour and then it took me two tries at the qualifying school on the European Tour and to get my card and the rest is history.
Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Lost are many great commissions by such neglect.
It's scoring goals that's great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
