lt is important to me to reflect about architecture, to step back from my daily work and take a look at what I am doing and why l am doing it.I Iove doing this, and I think l need it, too.l do not work towards architecture from a theoretically defined point of departure, for l am committed to making architecture, to building, to an ideal of perfection, just as in my boyhood I used to make things according to my ideas, things that had to be just right, for reasons which l do not really understand. It was always there, this deeply personal feeling for the things I made for myself,and | never thought of it as being anything special. It was just there.Today, l am aware that my work as an architect is largely a quest for this early passion, this obsession, and an attempt to understand it better
and to refine it. And when l reflect on whether I have since added new images and passions to the old ones. and whether l have learned something in my training and practice,l realize that in some way l seem always to have known the intuitive core of new discoveries.