I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going.

For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy.

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.