The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in..

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….

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'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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation..

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….

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

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….

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

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

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….

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

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks….