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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.