“Architecture is amazing because it’s art. But you know, it’s a very funny kind of art. It’s an art at the frontier between art and science. It’s fed by real life, every day. It’s driven by the force of necessity...

“As an architect, at 10 o’clock in the morning, you need to be a poet for sure. But at 11, you must become a humanist, otherwise you lose your direction. And at noon, you absolutely need to be a builder. You need to be able to make a building. Because architecture, at the end, is the art of making buildings. Architecture is the art of making shelter for human beings, period.”