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

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.

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

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

As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.