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

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

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 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.

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.

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

If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.