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

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.

We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

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

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

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.

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