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

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

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

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

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.

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

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.