Different Projects Give You Satisfaction In Different

My Earliest Memory Of Architecture, I Was Perhaps 6 Or 7 Years Old, Was Of My Aunt Building A House In Mosul In The North Of Iraq. The Architect Was A Close Friend Of My Father's And He Used To Come To Our House With The Drawings And Models. I Remember Seeing The Model In Our Living Room And I Think It Triggered Something, As I Was Completely Intrigued By It.

You Have To Really Believe Not Only In Yourself; You Have To Believe That The World Is Actually Worth Your Sacrifices.

Contrary To Popular View, I've Never Been Patronized In The Middle East. Men Maybe Treat Women Differently, But They Do Not Treat Them With Disrespect. They Don't Hate Women. It's A Very Different Kind Of Mentality.

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

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.