Site-Specific Design Quotes

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials have helped create regional architectural languages that seem curiously right for their locations and for all times.

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

I like to produce work for specific places, and it is difficult to do repeat shows in the same space.

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style that lands in a place is almost stronger than the place. For me it's about inventing a solution for each place; if people then want to know who did it, then great.

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.