So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
Most of our designs are developed long before there is a practical possibility of carrying them out. I do that on purpose and have done it all my life. I do it when I am interested in something.
I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Once I've designed something, I immediately move on to the next thing.
My design is no design.
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'