I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

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

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!