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.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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

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

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.