Zaha HadidI am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.352LifePolitics
Zaha HadidI am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. ✨ Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a d… ▶352Truth
Zaha HadidWhat's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings.364Death
Zaha HadidI think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.377ThoughtTime
Zaha HadidWhen you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I … ▶344DeathThought
Zaha HadidI can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'291Thought
Zaha HadidArchitecture 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 was for a long time, the clients were men, t… ▶3710HumanityThoughtTime
Zaha HadidWould they call me a diva if I were a guy? ✨ Phaeno Science Centre. www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.358Reading
Zaha HadidAll the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. ✨ Zaha Hadid says austerity i… ▶3610HumanityThought
Zaha HadidI really believe in the idea of the future.271HopeThoughtTime
Zaha HadidWhen I taught, all my best students were women. ✨ ZAHA HADID: 'I'm Sure That As A Woman I Can Build A Very Good Skyscraper' by Vanessa Thrope, www.businessins… ▶283Time
Zaha HadidWherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.262Truth
Zaha HadidThe commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it'… ▶306Humanity
Zaha HadidI don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.339Thought
Zaha HadidI loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.307Love
Zaha HadidI find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.274Reflection
Zaha HadidArchitecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.274Hope
Zaha HadidIt is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interven… ▶296Love
Zaha HadidWhen I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. ✨ Move over, Sydney: Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera H… ▶3210Reading
Zaha HadidContrary 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… ▶308Sadness
Zaha HadidThere are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.298Truth
Zaha HadidAs 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 like them. I like architecture to have … ▶266Life
Zaha HadidYou 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.267Thought
Zaha HadidArchitecture 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 also about pleasure. The intention is to … ▶234HumanityLifeThought
Zaha HadidIt was such a depressing time. I didn't look very depressed, maybe, but it was really dire. I made a conscious decision not to stop, but it could have gone the other way.267Time
Zaha HadidMy father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.279Politics
Zaha HadidYou have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.2810Truth
Zaha HadidOf 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 gal… ▶214Humanity
Zaha HadidLife in the Middle East is quite different from other places. ✨ Question time. Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2009.181LifeTime
Zaha HadidI don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.192Truth
