I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you l….

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own lang….

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff..

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building togeth….

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it..

When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its se….

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life..

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company..

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist..

I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it..

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images..