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.

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.

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

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

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.

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.