I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an….

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The peopl….

I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it….

PERFORMING TRIBUTE 9/11 shows the heroism of people who have chosen to respond to devastation and hatred with quiet determination and a belief that t….

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and ….

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?.

New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York..

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you..

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused..

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here..

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements..

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself..

I had a dual role: designer and advocate..

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this count….

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining t….

I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a ….

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view..

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave..