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“Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life”

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There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close.

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Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

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I cycle, which is a healthy thing for an 80-year-old to do. I rarely go further than five miles, but in those five miles…

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Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

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My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my children.

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Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano,…

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Watching TV on your own is not very inspiring. But meeting people is where you get new ideas and get things done.

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Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as…

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I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life.…

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There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so on.

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Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

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Today is much more an age of greed

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Death is but an aspect of life, and the destruction of one material form is but a prelude to building up of another.

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