I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Life involves other people and it is a compromise.

I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.

It's possible to be satisfied with a day's work or a cake, but a life... what is a life but a history of events badly remembered?

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.