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 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.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

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.