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.

My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

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

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.