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.

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

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

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

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

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?