You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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