A lasting architecture has to have roots.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.