A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look at this, isn't this amazing? It has to interactively involve them other than as spectators ... it has to engage them as creators.

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ... by implementing an architectural action, you actually are making a transformation in the social fabric and in the political fabric. Architecture becomes an instigator.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.