I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.