IBM has a very solid business image.

I'm just a nice and easy person.

I'm ashamed to be German.

You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction.

I’ve never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building.

We are creating a unique experience. It’s starts with how you see the building from a distance.

When I came to America in the ’60s, it was the place to be. I wonder if I’d come here today.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they’re special when they win a competition.

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don’t really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it’s all competitions these days.

Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it’s not just a physical idea, it’s also an intellectual one.