The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.