Zaha Hadid quotes

Zaha Hadid was a pioneering Iraqi-British architect renowned for her futuristic and innovative designs. Her buildings are characterized by bold forms and sweeping curves, transforming skylines around the world. She became the first woman to receive the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize. Here are 90 of her quotes:

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. (Zaha Hadid)
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. View quote
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? View quote
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When I taught, all my best students were women. View quote
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. View quote
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. View quote
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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. View quote
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you. View quote
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There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. View quote
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. View quote
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I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. (Zaha Hadid)
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. View quote
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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. View quote
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I really believe in the idea of the future. View quote
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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. View quote
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What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. View quote
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. View quote
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. View quote
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Zaha Hadid)
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. View quote
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. View quote
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. View quote
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. View quote
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Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid - Image
Photo: Pittigrilli, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: Iraqi Architect
Born: October 31, 1950
Died: March 31, 2016
Quotes count: 90
Wikipedia: Zaha Hadid

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