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.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

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

Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

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.

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