Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

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

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

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.

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

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

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.