I Don't Think People Should Do Things

Education, Housing And Hospitals Are The Most Important Things For 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 Spirit Of Adventure To Embrace The New And The Incredible Belief In The Power Of Invention Attracted Me To The Russian Avant-garde.

Half Of Architecture Students Are Women, And You See Respected, Established Female Architects All The Time.

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.