You Can't Make Anything Authentic By Asking

So I Am Totally Aware That When I Defend The Autonomy Of Art I'm Going Counter To My Own Development. It's More An Instinctive Reaction, Meant To Protect The Private Aspect Of The Work, The Part I Am Most Interested In And Which Nowadays Is At Risk In Our Culture.

Large-scale Public Projects Require The Agreement Of Large Numbers Of People.

You Can't Make Anything Authentic By Asking People What They Want Because They Don't Know What They Want. That's What They're Looking At You For.

For Me The Meaning Of My Work Is Much More Fluid.

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.