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

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities.

In some cases there are ways of thinking about what an architectural program produces - interior and exterior - that is not necessarily directed by an economic requirement, but is a diagram based on human actions, selfish or otherwise.

The idea of morphology of languages is something that I'm really interested in.

Every time I traveled to a new city, I would learn about local heroes I did not know about, and I would learn about their very impressive contribution to their cities. There are nuanced senses that only people from the region can understand, and no amount of globalization can change that. It's almost like a maxim of a sorts, when you think about language, the way that people speak in a location. It does happen with architects, in terms of how they engage cities.