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

Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.