With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.

Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.