Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

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

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

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've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.