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

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.