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.

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.

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.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

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