Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.