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 way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

I am always searching for more light and space.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many things.

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.

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