Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at you for.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

My words are like axe don't dare to interferes with your finger.

A Correct Message Is A Correct Attitude.Petra Cecilia Maria HermansSeptember 2, 2016

We have choice, ” she insisted. “This is it. We don’t get to choose our choices, Gwain, we just get to make the ones we’re given...

He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive.

We can't have Donald Trump in the White House.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.