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

Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

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.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.