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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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