Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

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

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. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

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