We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

I take the museum space also as sacred in a sense.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.