If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

I can't shout out, "Do this." I don't want to be prescriptive. I want to give you facts, and that's the way I've always operated, whether it's a historical fact or a scientific fact, and then you actually have to connect it in your brain.

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

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

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is and no matter how many people are present