I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station.(on Elgar)

Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Le génie est un péché contre la masse.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.

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

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.