"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."

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"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."

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"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

Simplicity

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

Architecture

"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."

Weather

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding."

Certainty

"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."

Beauty

"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."

Now

"Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands."

Influence

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."

Now

"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."

Now

"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."

Building