You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

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.

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

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.

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.

We look at each one [project] and consider the context - what it is and what it can be - beyond the strictly functional concerns.