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I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

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Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

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There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

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When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing - the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.

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Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

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Control is the wrong word. The practice is very much about sharing, and, in any creative practice, some individuals, whether partners or directors, are much closer to certain projects than I could ever be.

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I tend to move between turtlenecks and shirts and ties. I don't really have a uniform in the sense that some people might.

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I would never wear anything with a logo. That I really find difficult. It's a frustration that I'll find a nice shirt or something and it's got 50 prints of the logo on it - why do they do this?

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I think you never stop learning.

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Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can be applied to buildings.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Architect

Born: June 1st, 1935

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