Architect Quotes

I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.
I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.
I love my job. What would I retire to?
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life and vibrancy of it all. It was a bit too avant-garde for most Londoners at the time, but since then, the city has become a centre for modern culture.
I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent.
If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.
In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.
My parents always told me that nothing was impossible.
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.
Society has to get a grip and put a tax on carbon. Of course, there is much that flows from that, and it is a complex situation. The small details of something such as climate change are political and social, and they are a lot about fairness and how we rebalance towards a fairer society.
Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.
The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.'
The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.
The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood.
The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax.
There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.
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