Too Many Are Too Obsessed By Method.

No. I Don't Have The Patience, And I'm Not Very Tactful. People Say I Can Be Frightening.

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.

Different Projects Give You Satisfaction In Different Ways.

I Miss Aspects Of Being In The Arab World - The Language - And There Is A Tranquility In These Cities With Great Rivers. Whether It's Cairo Or Baghdad, You Sit There And You Think, 'this River Has Flown Here For Thousands Of Years.' There Are Magical Moments In These Places.

The Commission Process In America And England Is Different. In America, They Do It Through An Interview Process, And It's Really Based On Whether They Like You Or Not. I Mean, It's Nothing To Do With Whether You Do The Best Scheme Or The Worst Scheme.