When I taught, all my best students were women.

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

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

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