We think about project's public nature and how that can be enhanced, how the spaces we create can enliven the experience of being there.

For me [ Giovanni Lorenzo ] Bernini, [Francesco ] Borromini, and [Donato] Bramante have been as significant as Alvar Aalto, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Louis Kahn. I still marvel at their works, which have a quality and a timelessness that I seek to have in our projects.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

If I had my druthers, I would do a lot more.

Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.

Ultimately it's the public nature of those projects that I most enjoy. Museums are more than just places to view art, they're also civic and social centers.