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.

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.

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

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.

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.

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.