The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.

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

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