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I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Architecture is invention.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.