I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

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

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.