I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.