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

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

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

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

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.

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.