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

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

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

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.

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

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.

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