It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

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

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.