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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

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 is still coming to computer science.

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

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.

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

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

It is 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 do not need as long as you are able to achieve the same result?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

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

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

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