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

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

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.

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

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

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.