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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Architecture is not about form