My Buildings Don't Speak In Words But

Descriptions Of My Work Depress Me. They Make Me Feel Pinned Down.

Architecture Is A Social Activity That Has To Do With Some Sort Of Communication Or Places Of Interaction, And That To Change The Environment Is To Change Behaviour.

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.

So We Can't Go Backwards, We Can Only Go Where The Evolutionary Trajectory Is Taking Us And Attune Our Ideas About Ourselves And Our Existence To That Course.

Architecture Is A Discipline That Takes Time And Patience. If One Spends Enough Years Writing Complex Novels One Might Be Able, Someday, To Construct A Respectable Haiku.