It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don't have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. There are nuanced senses that only people from the region can understand, and no amount of globalization can change that. It's almost like a maxim of a sorts, when you think about language, the way that people speak in a location. It does happen with architects, in terms of how they engage cities.

Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.