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

Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

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.

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

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

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

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.