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Buildings are 'humane' only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.

I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

I am an architect, first.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

I try to create homes, not houses.

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.