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

For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.

I'm just a nice and easy person.

IBM has a very solid business image.

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

Success on one project does not necessarily mean success in the next project. You've got to be prepared in everything you do.

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

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

I'm ashamed to be German.

America has always imported history.

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings.

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

Chinese buildings are like American buildings, with big footprints. People don't care about daylight or fresh air.

A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes.

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

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

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

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

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

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.

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment.