The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

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.

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