Zaha Hadid Quotes
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.
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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.
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People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
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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.
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I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
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I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.
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My friendships are very important to me.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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My generation were all careerists.
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Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.