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Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. ”

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. ”

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. ”

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. ”

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. ”

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. ”

If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. ”

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. ”

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. ”

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. ”