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

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.

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

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.

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

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.