I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your work.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

There is no modern prototype for a campus. You have to have a completely different model which has to do with transparency and exposing social connectivity and breaking down the Balkanization that happens departmentally.

The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in.

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.