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.

One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

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.

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

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.

Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly - the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.