They All Come Out From The Same

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.

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.

I've Always Been Interested In Combining Architecture With A Social Agenda, And I Really Think You Can Invest And Be Inventive With Hospitals And Housing.

All The Privileged Can Travel, See Different Worlds, Not Everyone Can. I Think It Is Important For People To Have An Interesting Locale Nearby.

Architecture Is Unnecessarily Difficult. It's Very Tough.