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.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

If a building becomes architecture then it is art.

If you examine this I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples no ambitions.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.