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I try to create homes, not houses.

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Even a brick wants to be something

Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is.

A room is not a room without natural light.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses…

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

The street is a room by agreement.

What does a house want to be?

We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light.

The room is the beginning of architecture.

The nature of space reflects what it wants to be.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

The crocodile must want to be a crocodile for reasons of the crocodile

All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this…