The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something strange.

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

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.

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.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

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

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