> «Quality architecture to me is when a building manages to move me. What on earth is it that moves me?» p. 11

> «And I have to admit that I´m back to believing in first impressions. It´s a bit like that with architecture, too. I enter a building, see a room, and – in the fraction of a second – have this feeling about it. We perceive atmosphere that works incredibly quickly, and which we humans evidently need to help us survive.» p. 11 y 12

> «The magic of things, the magic of the real world.» p. 19

1. The Body of Architecture

> «And that is what I would call the first and the greatest secret of architecture, that it collects different things in the world, different materials, and combines them to create a space like this.» p. 23

> «A body that can touch me.» p. 23

2. Material Compatibility

> «Materials react with one another and have their radiance, so that the material composition gives rise to something unique.» p. 25

> «There are a thousand different possibilities in one material alone.» p. p. 25

3. The Sound of Space

> «I mean trying to make the building a quite place. That´s pretty difficult these days, because our world has become so noisy.» p. 31

4. The Temperature  of a Space

5. Surrounding Objects

> «And I got to wondering whether the job the architecture had set itself here was to create these receptacles to house objects.» p. 37

> «what´s needed is a design that prevents things becoming too leisurely and nice.» p. 39

> «It´s a great help to me to imagine the future of rooms in a house I´m building, to imagine them actually in use. In English you could probably describe it as <a sense of home>.» p. 39

6. Between Composure and Seduction

> «Architecture, like music, is a temporary art. That means thinking about the way people move in a building, and there are poles between which I like to place my work»

> «[…] the uses of the building. Guidance, preparation, stimulation, the pleasent surprise, relaxation […] » p. 45

7. Tension between Interior and exterior

> » The facade says: I am, I can, I want – in other words, whatever the owner and his architect wanted when they built it. The facade also says: but I am not going to show you everything.» p. 47

> «And what sort of statement do I want to make publicly?» p. 49

8. Levels of Intimacy

> «The thick door and the thin one. The thin wall and the thick.» p. 51

9. The Light on Things

> «So the first of my favourite ideas is this: to plan the building as a pure mass of shadow then, afterwards, to put in light as if you were hollowing out the darkness, as if the light were a new mass seeping in.» p. 59 / Esta frase me recuerda al trabajo de Pierre Soulages.

> «[…] to choose the materials in the knowledge of the way they reflect and to fit everything together on the basis of that knowledge.» p. 59

* Architecture as Surroundings

> «It would make me very happy to have made things which other people love.» p. 67

* Coherence

> «Place, use and form. The form reflects the place, the place is just so, and the use reflects this and that.» p. 69

> «Putting things together in a logical fashion.» p. 69

* The Beautiful Form

>»Thank you for listening.» p. 73

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