London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.

Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.

We are born to unfold the beauty of life and to adorn the universe with unique thoughts.

The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.

Only when she smiled at him was he finally able to relax.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

You are evil. But even the power of evil cannot stand against the power of faith and goodness.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.