Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

Without this spirit Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism I use architecture to reconcile the two.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design it looks to the community.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.