I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

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

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

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

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