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.

I really believe in the idea of the future.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.