Norman Foster

If you get that at the outset, the designers are more empowered and the designers are really a wider team.

But that needs a process of re-education because engineers have been taught, show me what you want, I'll make it work.

Architects have been taught that they should design in isolation.

It goes further.

Architects are taught about doing a building in isolation.

A city outside is a street.

You could argue the street is the essence of the traditional city.

Architects and urbanists are not taught about designing streets.

So planners are taught in terms of zoning, in terms of the legalities

Architects have talked about individual buildings.

So in a way we have to reassess how we educate and in our terms we re-educate whether it's here in a foundation preparing civic leaders for the future, enabling them to be able to tell the difference between fashion, prejudice, style and data and evidence.

And the same is true in terms of a building or

A city planned.

And the city.

I love flight.

I love automobiles.

And I think that as designers, we get our inspirations from many different directions.

I was deliberately being tongue-in-cheek in terms of the jumbo jet.

But what I really wanted to do was to get the audience thinking in a different way about a jumbo.

Because when you think about it,