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.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

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.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

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

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