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I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

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You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

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My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

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The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

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Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

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My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

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I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

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I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

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I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.

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Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Architect

Born: October 5th, 1959

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