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.

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

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.

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

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 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.