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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

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

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.