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 learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

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 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.

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

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