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

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

You really have to have a goal.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

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