"When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981,……" — Zaha Hadid

"When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms."

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78 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one…
You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your…
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…
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…
Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this…
You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity…
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.…
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or…

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