Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

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.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

The good is not a category that interests me.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

To eat Ugali is an art of adventure in itself. Forget cutlery because all you need is your lovely fingers.

United you will be more than a match for your enemies. But if you quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you.

God needs to bless the works of our hands, but you still need to do some work for God to bless it

The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

I always tell my kids make your vocation your vacation.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.