People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

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.

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.