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

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.