Zaha Hadid Quotes

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.
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else.
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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.
I really believe in the idea of the future.
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
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.
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful.
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.
I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Zaha Hadid
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Architect
BirthDate
31 October, 1950
DeathDate
31 March, 2016
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