The good is not a category that interests me.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on them. The only thing is complete transformation.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.