No. I Don't Have The Patience, And

The Beauty Of The Landscape - Where Sand, Water, Reeds, Birds, Buildings, And People All Somehow Flowed Together - Has Never Left Me.

A Brilliant Design Will Always Benefit From The Input Of Others.

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.

For Many Years, I Hated Nature. As A Student, I Refused To Put A Plant Anywhere - A Living Plant, That Is. Dead Plants Were Ok.