Best 88 quotes of Zaha Hadid on MyQuotes

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

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

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

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 was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

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. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

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.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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 like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

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 mentality.

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

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

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.

From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

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.

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

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

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

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

I 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.'

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

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

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.

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.

I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.

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

If I'm in london it can be different than if I'm somewhere else.

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

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

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.

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

I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.

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, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

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

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

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.

In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.

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

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

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 interventions and programmatic typologies

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

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.

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.

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

I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.

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.

I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

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.

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