Architecture is not about form

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

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

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

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.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.