The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

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.