It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

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

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

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