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.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

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.

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.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.