With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines,… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
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… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
