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

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

When I taught, all my best students were women.

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

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.