I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.

You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory, which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a city and neighborhood.

Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.