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.

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

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 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.

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

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.