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All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

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Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.

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My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.

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You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

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I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

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I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.

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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.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: October 5th, 1959

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