I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

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.

It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.