The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up but I wasn't very good at it.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

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.

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.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.