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

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.

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.

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

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

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.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.