A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

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

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.

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

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

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.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?