One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

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

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 piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

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

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