I Am Equally Proud Of All Of

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.

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.

The Commission Process In America And England Is Different. In America, They Do It Through An Interview Process, And It's Really Based On Whether They Like You Or Not. I Mean, It's Nothing To Do With Whether You Do The Best Scheme Or The Worst Scheme.

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.

Women Are Always Told, 'you're Not Going To Make It, Its Too Difficult, You Can't Do That, Don't Enter This Competition, You'll Never Win It,' - They Need Confidence In Themselves And People Around Them To Help Them To Get On.