It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see myself as an industrial designer.

I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the icing on the cake.

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called 'FMR,' so we have a common interest in design.

It's not difficult to separate it, ... When I'm here, I'm not worried about anything other than what's going on on the field.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.