I Am Equally Proud Of All Of

When I Taught, All My Best Students Were Women.

As A Woman, I'm Expected To Want Everything To Be Nice And To Be Nice Myself. A Very English Thing. I Don't Design Nice Buildings - I Don't Like Them. I Like Architecture To Have Some Raw, Vital, Earthy Quality.

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 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

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