It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

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

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.