A Brilliant Design Will Always Benefit From

I Don't Use The Computer. I Do Sketches, Very Quickly, Often More Than 100 On The Same Formal Research.

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.

Yes, I'm A Feminist, Because I See All Women As Smart, Gifted And Tough.

I Miss Aspects Of Being In The Arab World - The Language - And There Is A Tranquility In These Cities With Great Rivers. Whether It's Cairo Or Baghdad, You Sit There And You Think, 'this River Has Flown Here For Thousands Of Years.' There Are Magical Moments In These Places.