I think architecture has to be a gift.

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

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.

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

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

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interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references.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.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.