Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time.

We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

In the 1970s, New York was known as a place of great artistic production. Slowly, my city went from a place of production to a place of consumption.

Social media companies like Twitter and Facebook get to decide whether or not you get pertinent information about national security issues in your country.

Social media is so influential now.

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with.

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