It's Not My Duty As An Architect

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

For Many Years, I Hated Nature. As A Student, I Refused To Put A Plant Anywhere - A Living Plant, That Is. Dead Plants Were Ok.

I Find Industrial Cities Exciting. I Like Their Toughness.

I'm Trying To Discover - Invent, I Suppose - An Architecture, And Forms Of Urban Planning, That Do Something Of The Same Thing In A Contemporary Way. I Started Out Trying To Create Buildings That Would Sparkle Like Isolated Jewels; Now I Want Them To Connect, To Form A New Kind Of Landscape, To Flow Together With Contemporary Cities And The Lives Of Their Peoples.

People Say I Design Architectural Icons. If I Design A Building And It Becomes An Icon, That's Ok.