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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.