People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

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

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

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into 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.

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.