For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.