One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

When I taught, all my best students were women.

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.

Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

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