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

People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.