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.

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

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.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

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