Zaha Hadid Quotes

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.
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'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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.
It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.
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.
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.
Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
My friendships are very important to me.
My generation were all careerists.
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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.
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
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Zaha Hadid
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Architect
BirthDate
31 October, 1950
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31 March, 2016
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