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

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

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.

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.

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

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

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.