Architecture is not about form

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.

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

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

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