“I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analy...” — Maya Lin Quote

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.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

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.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be.