 I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. |
| The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. |
| We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. |
| 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. |
| Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. |
| If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. |
| The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. |
| Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. |
| It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. |
| The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. |
| Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. |
| The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox. |
| Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. |
