Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

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.

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

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.

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.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Architecture is not about form