You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

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.

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.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

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.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.