Zaha Hadid quotes - page 2

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. (Zaha Hadid)

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

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When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.

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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

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Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

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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. (Zaha Hadid)

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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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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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'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.

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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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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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

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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 really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

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What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. (Zaha Hadid)

As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.

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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

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I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.

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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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Zaha Hadid

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Occupation: Iraqi Architect
Born: October 31, 1950
Died: March 31, 2016
Quotes count: 90
Wikipedia: Zaha Hadid

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