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My generation were all careerists.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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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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I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
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I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
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My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
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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.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
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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 would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
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The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
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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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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.
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The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
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