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

I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces, of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.

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.

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

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

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