When I would present my work as a student, often I would hear, "Your project is too formal" - it's too form-based; it's too form-driven. Which is kind of shocking for a visual practice, for someone to say something discouraging about a focus on an exploration of aesthetics.

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

It's important to write a mystery novel where the takeaway is not a giveaway - where something could be read over and over.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work.

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds.

I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.