I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.
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.
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 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.
It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.
To fly we have to have resistance.
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.
My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
