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

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.

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.

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.