Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

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.