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If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

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

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

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

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.