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.

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

Architects need to restore and protect.

I really believed all this stuff - that I had to change the world.

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

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.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.