Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

This is the contradictory desire in our utopia. We want to live in a small community with which we can identify and yet we want all the facilities of the city of millions of people. We want to have very intense urban experiences and yet we want the open space right next to us.

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.