I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.