Half Of Architecture Students Are Women, And

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.

When Women Do Succeed, The Press, Even The Industry Press, Spend Far Too Much Time Talking About How We Dress, What Shoes We're Wearing, Who We're Meant To Be Seeing. That's Pretty Sad For Women, Especially When It's Written By Women Who Really Should Know Better.

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.

The Current State Of Architecture And Design Requires Extensive Collaboration And An Investigative Attitude And We Continue To Research And Develop New Technologies.

Two Years Ago I Focused On One Apartment To See How Many Variations You Can Come Up With In A Given Space With The Same Parameters. I Would Work On This Repeatedly For Days And You See That There Is Maybe Seven Hundred Options For One Space. This Exercise Gives You An Idea Of The Degree At Which You Can Interpret The Organization Of Space, It Is Not Infinite But It's Very Large.