You Have To Accept As An Architect

Architecture Is Art. I Don't Think You Should Say That Too Much, But It Is Art. I Mean, Architecture Is Many, Many Things. Architecture Is Science, Is Technology, Is Geography, Is Typography, Is Anthropology, Is Sociology, Is Art, Is History. You Know All This Comes Together. Architecture Is A Kind Of Bouillabaisse, An Incredible Bouillabaisse. And, By The Way, Architecture Is Also A Very Polluted Art In The Sense That It's Polluted By Life, And By The Complexity Of Things.

Every Year I Spend One Month Just Sailing, But I Still Work When Im On The Boat. You Never Separate Work From Leisure. A Boat Is Like A Magic World, Like A Little Island.

As An Architect You Are A Builder. You Are Of Course More Than A Builder. You Need To Be A Militant, You Have To Be A Poet, You Have To Be A Visionary, You Have To Be An Artist. But Certainly You Have To Be A Builder. Everything Starts From There.

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.

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