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

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" I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn't recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking. "

" My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. "

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

" Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport. "

" Cities are about juxtaposition. "

" My parents always told me that nothing was impossible. "

" Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. "

" I think greed is a critical problem - the gap between the poor and the rich. The gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent. "

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

" There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity. "

" There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. "

" 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. "

" So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state. "

" Cities depend on a healthy mix of uses and people for their vitality. As a pre-eminent world city, London is a magnet to people from across the globe. "

" I am much more passionate about cities than I am about nations. The competition between cities is more civilised than between nations. There is an understanding there. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I love my job. What would I retire to? "

" 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. "

" The one advantage of being dyslexic is that you are never tempted to look back and idealise your childhood. "

" Architecture is always political. "

" I don't believe in the ownership of work. "