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If you just live in New York and you only know New York, you know a certain kind of condition of formality and informality. By being able to go to another context and to be able to use that as a counter foil to the context you know, you are about to see a wider range.

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Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

Buildings, Makeup, Space, Structures, Think, Thinking

I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people.

Architecture, Design, People, Rich, Strata

Buildings for me represent opportunities of agency, transformation, and storytelling. They are not just artifacts. There is this big tradition of buildings-as-artifacts - constructed artifacts - but for me they are these incredible sites of negotiation.

Agency, Negotiation, Opportunities, Opportunity, Sites, Transformation

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

Become, Building, Important, Surroundings

I got into architecture because I was searching for a way to produce in the world. I went to art school and thought I would do it through art, but I realized very quickly that I was interested in the social ramifications of form making. So buildings became the vehicle and fulfilled that thing. That satisfied me when I produced them. I decided this is what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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