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From my first days studying a...

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.

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No. I don't have the patience...

No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.

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Obviously for some people the...

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

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The paintings have only ever ...

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

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Two years ago I focused on on...

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.

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I am eccentric, I admit it, b...

I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

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Of course there is a lot of f...

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.

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With products the form is alm...

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

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You have to be very focused a...

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

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As a woman you're not accessi...

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

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You have to really believe no...

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

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They all come out from the sa...

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

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It was such a depressing time...

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.

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I'm trying to discover - inve...

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.

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Some people really live and w...

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

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When women do succeed, the pr...

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.

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It is insufficient for archit...

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

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There are some very similar m...

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'.

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For a woman to go out alone i...

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

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There is a strong reciprocal ...

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

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