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

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

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

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

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.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.