I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.