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

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

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.

My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!