When I Was Growing Up In Iraq,

I Don't Use The Computer. I Do Sketches, Very Quickly, Often More Than 100 On The Same Formal Research.

If I'm In London It Can Be Different Than If I'm Somewhere Else.

I Don't Think That Architecture Is Only About Shelter, Is Only About A Very Simple Enclosure. It Should Be Able To Excite You, To Calm You, To Make You Think.

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

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.