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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.

You Have To Be Very Focused And Work Very Hard, But It Is Not About Working Hard Without Knowing What Your Aim Is!

I Have Been Interested In Fashion Since I Was A Kid. Then I Lived In London, Where It Was More About Costume And A Personal Statement Of Who You Are Than About Fashion.

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.

Some People Really Live And Work Within The Same Doctrine, The Same Diagram With The Same Logic.