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

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

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

Know what it is that you are trying to find out.