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.

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.

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

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.