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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" '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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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