One Has To Strive For

There Is A Strong Reciprocal Relationship Whereby Our More Ambitious Design Visions Encourage The Continuing Development Of The New Digital Technologies And Fabrication Techniques, And Those New Developments In Turn Inspire Us To Push The Design Envelope Ever Further.

The Commission Process In America And England Is Different. In America, They Do It Through An Interview Process, And It's Really Based On Whether They Like You Or Not. I Mean, It's Nothing To Do With Whether You Do The Best Scheme Or The Worst Scheme.

For A Woman To Go Out Alone Into Architecture Is Still Very, Very Hard. It's Still A Man's World.

Women Are Always Told, 'you're Not Going To Make It, Its Too Difficult, You Can't Do That, Don't Enter This Competition, You'll Never Win It,' - They Need Confidence In Themselves And People Around Them To Help Them To Get On.

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.