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

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.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.