My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

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

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

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