“Architecture is about public space held by buildings.” — Richard Rogers Quote

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano, John Young, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour.

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

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

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.

'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.