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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

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

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.