It's Not My Duty As An Architect

I Will Always Have Two Regrets. I Don't Have A Presence In London, And I Would Have Liked To Have Done More Work In The Middle East.

It Is Insufficient For Architecture Today To Directly Implement An Existing Building Typology; It Instead Requires Architects To Carefully Examine The Whole Area With New Interventions And Programmatic Typologies

The Paintings Have Only Ever Been Ways Of Exploring Architecture. I Don't See Them As Art.

The Spirit Of Adventure To Embrace The New And The Incredible Belief In The Power Of Invention Attracted Me To The Russian Avant-garde.

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.