We learn a lot, and each museum ends up having its own distinctive character and personality.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

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

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.

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

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.