There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.