To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.

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.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

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

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