Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.

My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.

If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.

Architecture is not about form

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Nothing makes me happier than working with real people in the real world.