The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

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

My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

When I taught, all my best students were women.