Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

We don't tell them that they can't build. We say we have a natural hazard here, like if we built in a flood plain or on an unstable slope.