I Loved London. In The 1970s... It

My Work First Engaged With The Early Russian Avant-garde; The Paintings Of Moholy-nagy, El Lissitzky's 'prouns' And Naum Gabo's Sculptures, But In Particular With The Work Of Kasimir Malevitch - He Was An Early Influence For Me As A Representative Of The Modern Avant-garde Intersection Between Art And Design.

I Find Industrial Cities Exciting. I Like Their Toughness.

My Father Was A Politician, And A Very Important Politician, And One Of The Leaders Of The Iraqi Democratic Party, Who Believed In Progress.

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

It's Not My Duty As An Architect To Look At It.