I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.