I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.