The primary factor is proportions.
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.