I Don't Particularly Like Showing Furniture On

I've Always Thought That Design Can Have Equal Importance To The Idea Of Internal Architecture. Professionally, Things Can Be Very Dogmatic - You Do The Architecture, Someone Else Does The Interiors, Someone Else Does The Furniture, The Fabric, Etc. But I Think Design Is All-encompassing.

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.

The Paintings Have Only Ever Been Ways Of Exploring Architecture. I Don't See Them As Art.

When I First Came To Guangzhou In 1981, It Seemed Such A Hard And Dour Place With Everyone In Chairman Mao Uniforms.

It Would Be Very Interesting To Design Objects For Everyday Life, Something Where The Ideas That Are Expressed Can Be Launched Into Society.