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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

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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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Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

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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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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Architect

Born: October 31st, 1950

Died: March 31st, 2016

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