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" 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. "

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" I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down. "

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" I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white. "

" Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously. "

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

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

" If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does. "

" The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast. "

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

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

" If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport. "

" I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. "

" The Ranelagh Gardens in Chelsea provide plenty of opportunities to walk, think and relax. "

" Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world. "

" Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client. "

" In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. "

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" I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles I can get to 80 percent of the places I want to go. "

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" 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. "

" When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.' "

" It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way. "

" I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'. "

" The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. "

" Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish. "

" My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children. "

" Architecture is always political. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done. "

" I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face. "

" 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. "

" 'Be passionate about your work and your life' was instilled in me by my mother Dada, who was a potter. She also introduced me to the arts and encouraged me to embrace the new. "

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