I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

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.

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

To fly, we must have resistance.

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.

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