Zaha Hadid Quotes

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Zaha Hadid

Profession : Architect

Birth : October 31, 1950

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 to help them to get on.

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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 no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.

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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.

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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.

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

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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

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I really believe in the idea of the future.

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

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

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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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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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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.

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When I taught, all my best students were women.

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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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My friendships are very important to me.

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

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When 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 remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

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