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You really have to have a goal.
My generation were all careerists.
My friendships are very important to me.
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
I really believe in the idea of the future.
It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.
When I taught, all my best students were women.
Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
One has to strive for a very open liberal society.
I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.
I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.
Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.
Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.
If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.