"I discovered by working with actual glass models that the important thing is the play of reflections..." — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts himself therein and how he masters it.

You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.

We do not evaluate the result but the starting point of the creative process. Precisely, this shows whether the form was discovered by starting from life, or for its own sake. That is why I consider the creative process so essential. Life for us is the decisive factor.

You cannot save wonderful towns. You can only save wonderful towns by building new ones.