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I don't usually go in for reviews of buildings that aren't yet built, since you can tell only so much from drawings and plans, and, besides, has there ever been a building that didn't look great as a model?

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

I haven't done any building designs since the Loaf House.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings.