Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

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

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

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

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual, to be working between the architecture, the art, and what I would say is a synthesis, the memorials - they're problem solving, but it's very symbolic. You get this triangle; I need to be balanced with those three. They're all equally a part of who I am. I love how different they are, and yet they're coming out the same thing, whatever it is.

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