I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.

My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.