You Really Have To Have A Goal.

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.

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

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

Too Many Are Too Obsessed By Method. It Becomes A Dogma.

I Love Driving Around East London - It's Always Full Of Surprises. Actually, I Don't Drive Myself - I Like To Be Driven.