My Inspiration Came From The Land, ...

Architects Have To Dream, We Have To Search For Our Atlantises, To Be Explorers, Adventurers, And Yet To Build Responsibly And Well.

My Inspiration Came From The Land, ... And, Of Course, From Paul Klee . . . And The Poetics Of His Paintings.

Architecture Is Art, But Art Vastly Contaminated By Many Other Things. Contaminated In The Best Sense Of The Word – Fed, Fertilised By Many Things.

Cities Are Beautiful Because They Are Created Slowly; They Are Made By Time. A City Is Born From A Tangle Of Monuments And Infrastructures , Culture And Market, National History And Everyday Stories. It Takes 500 Years To Create A City, 50 To Create A Neighborhood.

If You Have Total Freedom, Then You Are In Trouble. It's Much Better When You Have Some Obligation, Some Discipline, Some Rules. When You Have No Rules, Then You Start To Build Your Own Rules.