Zaha Hadid Quotes

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but…
• You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.
• Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.
• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?
• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new…
• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a…
• 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 it,'…
• You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually…
• When I taught, all my best students were women.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.…
• 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 think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm…
• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's…
• You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to…
• It's not my duty as an architect to look at it
• I really believe in the idea of the future.
• 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…

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