I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

You really have to have a goal.

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.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

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 really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.