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

These three qualities I recommend to you tenacity, goodness, and intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help make you good professionals.

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

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

I am always searching for more light and space.

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

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

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.

The concept of an architect is one of the oldest professions in the world. Whereas, some professions, such as a lawyer, have their roots in Latin, Archi - tecton is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist for years to come, even if we are changing.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

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

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.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.