“Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.” — Richard Rogers Quote

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

You have to modernise; you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

Form follows function.

When I began studying architecture all I ever wanted was an original, black Eames lounge chair.

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.