I think it's really important to use your hands and get close to materials. To be up close to real things like rain and mud; to have contact with nature.

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

I think I've always been waiting for things to happen.

I think it's important that things are flawed.