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.

The work needs to have a certain longevity. It lasts longer than we do.

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

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

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.

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

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.