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

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

" 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.' "

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

" My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time. "

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

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

" I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. "

" 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. "

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

" Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting. "

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

" 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'. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "