Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.
The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.
When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
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.
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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.
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
