When I Taught, All My Best Students

I'm Trying To Discover - Invent, I Suppose - An Architecture, And Forms Of Urban Planning, That Do Something Of The Same Thing In A Contemporary Way. I Started Out Trying To Create Buildings That Would Sparkle Like Isolated Jewels; Now I Want Them To Connect, To Form A New Kind Of Landscape, To Flow Together With Contemporary Cities And The Lives Of Their Peoples.

There Are Some Very Similar Moments In The Early Work Where The Focus Was On Drawing, Abstraction And Fragmentation. Then It Moved To The Development Of Ideas. Lately It Has Become What Architecture Should Be, Which Is More Fluid Organization. There Has Not Been So Much 'a Change' But 'a Development'.

There Are So Many Great Galleries And Museums In London, But They Can Be Very Crowded During The Day.

I Will Always Have Two Regrets. I Don't Have A Presence In London, And I Would Have Liked To Have Done More Work In The Middle East.

Education, Housing And Hospitals Are The Most Important Things For Society.