It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

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.

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

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.