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 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.

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

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.