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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.