You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

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

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

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

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.

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

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.