The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light.
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom.
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.
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.
I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures...
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
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.
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.