Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days.

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

A building is hard to judge. It takes many years to find out whether it works. It's not as simple as asking the people in the office whether they like it.