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.

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

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.

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

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

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

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