For me, the most important thing is that architecture is art. Working in architecture is not merely an engineering activity but an artistic one as well — permeated with thoughts, visions of the future, constant searching and the fundamental questions of life — whose result I can pass on to my fellow human beings in the form of buildings. The architect must deal not only with what is visible to the eye, but also with the less visible elements. This is what creates a unity like that of a living organism. In this conscious activity, Imre Makovecz was a great master.

If the architect does not seek the unity of spirit and matter when designing a building, the result is nothing but mechanical processes, lifeless spaces and forms — as can be seen everywhere in the world today. In that case the architect is no longer a creator, only a creature who follows the rules of architecture and is satisfied with that. The question of the essence of the human being, the earth and the spiritual world disappears, and this has very grave consequences. That is not architecture at all, for it does not fulfil its original task and does not use its immense healing power.