Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be obvious. They must have an intuition for people’s changing attitudes. For the reality in which they live, for their dreams, their desires, their worries, their needs, their living habits. They must also be able to assess realistically the opportunities and bounds of technology.

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Good design is honest.

Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

I hate everything that is driven by fashion.

I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.