The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

I like English parks.

Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement