- (Himself): I think Alvaro Siza is arresting because of his attitude towards the site. In fact it's his habit more than any other architect I think to go to the site almost as soon as he's received the program, without really looking at the program and to start to draw on the site, to get the feel of the site in fact through the process of drawing. And this drawing of the site, which is not just a depiction of the site as it is but a kind of graphic representation of what the site might become.
- (Himself): When I began the buildings were made with artisans- the people who worked with stone. It cost less to build in stone than in concrete. All the architects were dreaming of making flat ceilings. I began in the practice of architecture with many connections to the traditional. My way of thinking then and today also, was not let's make a new world, a new language. But I was relating more with continuity. And then this idea that nothing is invented. There is a past for everything.