An important work of architecture will create polemics.

Winning the competition for Frankfurt's Museum of Applied Art in '79 opened the door to a number of projects in Europe, especially as we were invited to join many design competitions.

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.

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

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

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

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.