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.

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.

How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

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.

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

I'm as much interested in the form-making as well as getting you to think about what we're doing to the world around us.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.