I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

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

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

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

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

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.