My task as a designer is designer-by definition. It is related to artistry and achievement, intuition and craftsmanship. But also to commitment, authenticity, and a deep interest in subject matter. To achieve beauty l must be at one with myself, l must do my own thing and no other because the particular substance that recognizes beauty and can, with luck, create it lies within me. On the other hand, the things I want to create-table, house, bridge-must be allowed to come into their own. l believe every well-made thing has an inherently appropriate order that determines its form. This essence is what l want to discover and l therefore stick firmly to the matter at hand in the process of designing. l believe in an accuracy of outlook and a truth content in real, sensual experience, which are beyond abstract opinions or ideas. What does this house want to become, as an object of use, as a physical body, its materials firmly constructed and joined, its shape molded into a form that serves life? l ask myself and ask some more. What does this house want to be for its location on the city lane, in the suburbs, in the battered landscape, on the hill in front of a stand of beeches, with a flight path overhead, in the light of the lake, in the shade of the forest?