One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

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.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

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.

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

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