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I like to think about architecture as a kind of landscape.
I don't think you can teach architecture. You can only inspire people.
I always thought it was important to have a vision and to persist.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, it should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
The purpose of architecture is to move us.
The best architecture has no ego. It simply serves.
I like to think of architecture as a frame for life.
We don't own the land, we borrow it from our children.
We don't believe in universal solutions. Every problem requires its own answer.
We are not artists. We are architects.
We always start from zero. There is no preconceived idea.
We are not interested in the spectacular. We are interested in the specific.
We believe that architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
We try to avoid what we call 'signature architecture'. We don't want to have a style.
We are interested in the ordinary. We are interested in how you can take something that is very common and make it special.
The more chaotic the world becomes, the more we need architecture to make sense of it.
The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.
The city is the ultimate expression of our civilization.