The Best Zaha Hadid quotes

One has to strive for a very open liberal society. — Zaha Hadid

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. — Zaha Hadid

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

My friendships are very important to me. — Zaha Hadid

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. — Zaha Hadid

As a woman you’re not accessible to every world. — Zaha Hadid

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It’s still a man’s world. — Zaha Hadid

People don’t talk to you properly. It’s the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it’s a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. — Zaha Hadid

When I taught, all my best students were women. — Zaha Hadid

Yes, I’m a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough. — Zaha Hadid

Men think a woman should not have an opinion. — Zaha Hadid

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid

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. — Zaha Hadid

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic. — Zaha Hadid

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is! — Zaha Hadid

Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity. — Zaha Hadid

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. But if you don’t, you don’t. — Zaha Hadid

It’s not my duty as an architect to look at it. — Zaha Hadid

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma. — Zaha Hadid

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. — Zaha Hadid

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough. — Zaha Hadid

With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. — Zaha Hadid

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 you, to make you think. — Zaha Hadid

The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don’t see them as art. — Zaha Hadid

I’ve always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing. — Zaha Hadid

I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial. — Zaha Hadid

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 also about pleasure. — Zaha Hadid

Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid

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

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

I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes. — Zaha Hadid

It 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. — Zaha Hadid

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It’s not guessing, it’s not intuitive, it’s based on research–and we may be wrong. — Zaha Hadid

Of course, the beaches and weather have always been popular with tourists, but miami is also becoming an international hub, it’s an exciting time … to investigate new possibilities for the city. — Zaha Hadid

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. — Zaha Hadid

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others. — Zaha Hadid

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

The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies. — Zaha Hadid

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries. — Zaha Hadid

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society. — Zaha Hadid

I don’t use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research. — Zaha Hadid

They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow. — Zaha Hadid

All 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

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices. — Zaha Hadid

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. — Zaha Hadid

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater. — Zaha Hadid

Wherever 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. — Zaha Hadid