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• Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we…
• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think…
• My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
• Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
• You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love…
• Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
• I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives.…
• I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public each work is…
• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that…
• If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.
• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal…
• I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into…

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