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

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

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

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.