I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

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

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

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

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