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

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.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

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.

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

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've been such an outsider my whole life.