Zaha Hadid Quotes
-
My friendships are very important to me.
-
I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
-
My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.
-
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
-
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.
-
If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
-
I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
-
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
-
My generation were all careerists.
-
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'
-
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.
-
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.
-
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
-
Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
-
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
-
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
-
When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
-
The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.
-
Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.
-
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
-
You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
-
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
-
It was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.
-
Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.