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

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.

Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts.

For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.

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.

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

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