The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

I like English parks.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement

I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to vision.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.