Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.