My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

To fly, we must have resistance.

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

I do think the smaller-scale studio works have that incredible love of data crunching, whereas I would say the large-scale earthworks tend to be much more stripped-down. With the mappings, as connected as they are to a much more analytical idea, what's a map? And can I make a map about time? I think the first time was Hurricane Sandy, the flood plane; a moment in time, but indelibly marked on any of us who were in the city. Mapping time is something that I'm really interested in.

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

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 grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.