Zaha Hadid Quotes

• 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.

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

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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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• When I taught, all my best students were women.

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• When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.

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

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

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• There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day.

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

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

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• 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.

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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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• My friendships are very important to me.

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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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• 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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• 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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Zaha Hadid (75)

Birth:	31st October, 1950
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Architect

About

Zaha Hadid is an Iraqi-British architect. She received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004 the first woman to do so and the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011. Her buildings are distinctively futuristic, characterized by the "powerful, curving forms of her elongated structures" with "multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life". She is currently professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in Austria.

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