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 saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

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