Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.