I feel however that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Believe me that was a happy age before the days of architects before the days of builders.