This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

I always had an interest in space and the effect it had on you.

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

If we're going to save the planet, people are going to have to live in ways that don't require so much energy and don't create as much waste. The only way to do that is to live more densely than Americans are living right now.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

Architects need to restore and protect.