I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

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

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

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

What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.