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

When I taught, all my best students were women.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

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 made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.