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.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

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.

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

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

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

These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.