When I First Came To Guangzhou In

I've Always Been Interested In Combining Architecture With A Social Agenda, And I Really Think You Can Invest And Be Inventive With Hospitals And Housing.

As A Woman, I'm Expected To Want Everything To Be Nice And To Be Nice Myself. A Very English Thing. I Don't Design Nice Buildings - I Don't Like Them. I Like Architecture To Have Some Raw, Vital, Earthy Quality.

Architecture Is Like Writing. You Have To Edit It Over And Over So It Looks Effortless

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

I Don't Think People Should Do Things Because You Know, 'i Am Turning This Age, I Must Go Have A Husband.' If You Find Somebody And It Works Out Then Have Kids, It's Very Nice. But If You Don't, You Don't.