Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my 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 lo….

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in..

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

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 to….

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 archi….

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 c….

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 pro….

For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid..

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

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art..

I've been such an outsider my whole life..

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

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct….

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation..

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….

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..

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 th….

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 simultaneous….