You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

The architect Borromini's Quattro Fontane, a little church in Rome, is one of the most beautiful rooms in history.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

People are searching for something they don't have in their lives. There's an unfulfilled need.

You never build the perfect building. Only Allah is perfect. Life is such. You make decisions on conclusions, then some guy invents something else and the world changes. That's comforting. There's no one way to use museums, no one way to do art. That also means there is no one way to build museums.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.