Of Course I Believe Imaginative Architecture Can

With Products The Form Is Almost The Finished Piece, But With Architecture It Is Not.

Half Of Architecture Students Are Women, And You See Respected, Established Female Architects All The Time.

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.

I Am Quite Sensitive To Politics, Because You Know, As An Arab, An Iraqi, All Your Life, You Are Very Conscious Of It.

Of Course There Is A Lot Of Fluidity Now Between Art, Architecture And Fashion - A Lot More Cross-pollination In The Disciplines, But This Isn't About Competition, It's About Collaboration And What These Practices And Processes Can Contribute To One Another.