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.

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

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

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.