One of the things that intrigued me was how these pieces went together to make what is truly a monumental city. It is different from the other cities in America. It feels important in the civic realm, or it did before 9/11, certainly. Yet there was a lot of mediocre architecture, in fact, some very bad architecture. But, it still added up to a ceremonial and grand city. I was interested in the work that a couple of landscape architects had done in some of the parks. Then later, Charles Eliot, when he was working on the park system under FDR, and with others did things like Rock Creek Park. It was really pretty wonderful stuff that happened, the Parkway systems and all. When we came to work in Washington, we first did a little project on Pennsylvania Avenue that closed a street and pedestrianized it. We simplified an intersection and moved the Monument for the Grand Army of the Republic and the Temperance Fountain. We rearranged them because it was just such a mess. I was working within the larger frame of the Pennsylvania Avenue development plan that Nat Owings and David Childs and others had done years before. I was trying to figure out what were the ideas about Washington that people had in terms of its public stance, its civic situation, and that really has driven most of our work here.