Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.

The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

I am always searching for more light and space.

You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are another person. You are ready to go for your pension.

The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be equally tenacious in life.

The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.

When your life flashes through your eyes make sure there is enough to see, until then work hard on your ambitions and live life to the fullest.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

There are things in this world that no human being should be able to endure. We should die of heartbreak, but we do not. Instead, we are forced to survive, to bear witness.

You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know.

Men really respect a woman who's in their power and who isn't afraid just to speak up. I feel that it's something to practice. When you hold yourself with integrity, they respond real well.

Most people would agree that the details matter when it faces the user. But where the real debate is on things that don't face the user.

I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.

They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.