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.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

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

When I taught, all my best students were women.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

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.

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