I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and wind

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

In all my works, light is an important controlling factor.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

As long as you have an objective in your mind you are young.

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

You are a miracle. Remind yourself often.

Higher income either indicates higher intelligence or lesser morals!

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.

When i was younger i remember once i went to bed and i was so happy that i laughed myself to sleep.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

A refusal of nature as a model is a tradition that goes right back to Oscar Wilde.

Highly fed and lowly taught.