- Jacques Herzog: Modernism is a historic movement much like the Baroque, the middle ages, or the Renaissance and it symbolized a great hope for a Utopian society. That is one way to look at Modernism. Another way of interpreting the Modern Movement is to see that it represents an early attempt to develop new technical possibilites and thus to establish something fundamental. In that sense the possibilites of the Modern Movement have not yet been exhausted and for us they are a very important tool.
- Jacques Herzog: I believe there is great freedom in our time, more than ever. In the arts this allows us to draw freely on all the disciplines, be it architecture, filmmaking, fashion, music, painting or sculpture. This great freedom, this openness offers us a great chance which we are trying to make use of.
- Antonio Cruz: We do not think ideas are the most important thing in architecture, but rather, the intermediary process that enables these ideas to be realized, that converts them into buildings. On the other hand, we always try to include the conceptual because there is nothing we detest more than an architecture empty of all content, void of ideas, without any starting point. At the same time we prefer such ideas to remain in the background and to allow the structure to emerge into the foreground as a building: somthing that fufills a public function, something for the people that use it.