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.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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.

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.

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.