How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that they can and will make the world a better place.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.