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 interested in conflict and confrontation.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

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.

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.