My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

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.

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 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 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.