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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

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.

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

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

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Architecture is art, nothing else.

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

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.