You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

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

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

The primary factor is proportions.

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.

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.