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

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

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

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

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.

As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.