They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

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.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

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

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

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

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.