It’s tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

I always try to think in curves.

It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.

To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But its some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

It turns out it's not rocket science to design a sacred space.

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.