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.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

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. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.