I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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

When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

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

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

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