I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

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

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

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.