It Was Such A Depressing Time. I

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.

I Loved London. In The 1970s... It Was Very Exciting, Really Wild.

I've Always Thought That Design Can Have Equal Importance To The Idea Of Internal Architecture. Professionally, Things Can Be Very Dogmatic - You Do The Architecture, Someone Else Does The Interiors, Someone Else Does The Furniture, The Fabric, Etc. But I Think Design Is All-encompassing.

You Really Have To Have A Goal.

I Don't Think That Everybody In The Planet Should Have A Child. I've Never Had The Desire I Should Have A Kid.