The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

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.

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.

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.

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

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.