He has been considered to be both an expressionist and post-Bauhaus architect, but he prefers to define himself as an architect who creates "connections" between the past and the future, between the world of ideas and the physical world, between a building and its urban surroundings.
Foi considerado un arquitecto expresionista e un pos-Bahaus, el prefire referirse a si mesmo coma un arquitecto que crea "conexións" entre o pasado e o futuro, entre o mundo das ideas e o mundo físico, entre un edificio e o contexto urbano que o rodea.