Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you weren't working, But we said, 'Why can't we make a workplace where casual meetings are as important as working at your desk?' Sometimes that's where your better creative work happens.