If you want an easy life don't be an architect.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

Less is more.

A house is a machine for living in.

Every great architects is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.