The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.

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.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

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