Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands.

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

Find optimism in the inevitable.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.