Zaha Hadid Quotes
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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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.
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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 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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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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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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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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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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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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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.
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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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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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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.
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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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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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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 find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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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.
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It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.