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

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.

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

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

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

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.