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Zaha Hadid  Quotes
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...

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It’s very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future.

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I’m a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them.

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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.

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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, ‘I’ve made it.’

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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...

—Zaha Hadid

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I loved London. In the 1970s… it was very exciting, really wild.

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As a woman, you’re not accessible to every world.

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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.

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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.

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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and...

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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.

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I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It’s always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn’t be a dame.

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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

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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,’ – they need confidence in themselves and people around them...

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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.

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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.

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I’m into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment – like music, literature, and art.

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People in power, they’re so used to people kind of playing up to them.

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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

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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 and it works out then have kids, it’s very nice....

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I really believe in the idea of the future.

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My friendships are very important to me.

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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.

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What’s nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that’s very nice.

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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 nation building.

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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 respects the art as well.

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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that’s ok.

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My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

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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. They don’t hate women. It’s a very different kind of...

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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

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Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It’s about being educated.

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I don’t think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don’t take any rubbish, and that doesn’t make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to...

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I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

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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.

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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.

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My generation were all careerists.

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I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.

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What’s similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.

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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.

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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,...

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I made a decision when I was in school that I’d have a lot of male friends.

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Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard.

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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.

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