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

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.

Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different.

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.

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.

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.