Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the architect needs concentrated activities to learn the guidelines, and that is what school is for. But, second, is the public aspect of education. The architect needs to see architecture in the streets to learn.