My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

My inspiration came from the land, ... and, of course, from Paul Klee . . . and the poetics of his paintings.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.

If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation, some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.