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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.