A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

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.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

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.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.