Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

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.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.