“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”
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When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
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.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
