If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

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

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name.

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.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

Architecture is not about form