I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.