I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

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.

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

The primary factor is proportions.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

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

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