Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
I'm quite into the idea of engineering being beautiful.
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.
Bridges with cables very easily resemble stringed instruments.
Buildings are forms of performances.
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product.
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
