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.

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

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

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

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

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 design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.