I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

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.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

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.

The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.