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.

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

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.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.