Zaha Hadid
architect, designer, university teacher, jewelry designer, artist, sculptor, painter
Read on Wikipedia1950 – 2016
All Quotes by Zaha Hadid
“I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.”
“I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.”
“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.”
“I really believe in the idea of the future.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”
“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.”
“I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.”
“Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.”
“I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.”
“Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.”