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.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

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.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

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.