I Will Always Have Two Regrets. I

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

In Iraq, Many Of My Female Friends Were Architects And Professionals With A Lot Of Power During The 1980s While All The Men Were At War In Iran.

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.

Two Years Ago I Focused On One Apartment To See How Many Variations You Can Come Up With In A Given Space With The Same Parameters. I Would Work On This Repeatedly For Days And You See That There Is Maybe Seven Hundred Options For One Space. This Exercise Gives You An Idea Of The Degree At Which You Can Interpret The Organization Of Space, It Is Not Infinite But It's Very Large.

What's Similar Between Britain And America Is The Lack Of Good-quality Civic Buildings.