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  • I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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  • Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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  • 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.
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  • Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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  • I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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  • I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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  • 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.
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  • I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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