Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.