I Cannot Force A Design;

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.

I Think I Needed To Really Move Past My First Public Work As Memorialist, And Be Equally Balanced. It's A Bit Unusual, To Be Working Between The Architecture, The Art, And What I Would Say Is A Synthesis, The Memorials - They're Problem Solving, But It's Very Symbolic. You Get This Triangle; I Need To Be Balanced With Those Three. They're All Equally A Part Of Who I Am. I Love How Different They Are, And Yet They're Coming Out The Same Thing, Whatever It Is.

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.

I Cannot Force A Design; I Do Not See This Process As Being Under My Conscious Control.

I Can't Shout Out, "do This." I Don't Want To Be Prescriptive. I Want To Give You Facts, And That's The Way I've Always Operated, Whether It's A Historical Fact Or A Scientific Fact, And Then You Actually Have To Connect It In Your Brain.