Latest Zaha Hadid Quotes from Interviews

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• One has to strive for a very open liberal society.

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  Strive

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• The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

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  Worry, May, Conservative

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• The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

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  Differences, People, World

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• The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.

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  Should Have, Goal, Might

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• Know what it is that you are trying to find out.

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  Trying, Knows

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• You really have to have a goal.

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  Goal

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• Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.

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  Dogma, Obsessed, Method

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

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  Knowing, Aim, Hard

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

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  Jeans, Black, Style

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

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  Somewhere Else, Different, London

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Agendas, Architecture

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

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  Use, Research, Computer

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• With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.

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  Pieces, Architecture, Form

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

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  Ideas, Interesting, Design

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• There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

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  Organization, Ideas, Drawing

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• Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

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  Giving, Way, Satisfaction

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• Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

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  Exercise, Years, Organization

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• Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

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  People, Doctrine, Logic

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• 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

  Attitude, Technology, Design

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• There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.

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  Strong, Technology, Design

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

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  Technology, Design, Ambitious

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• They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.

  Zaha Hadid

  Projects, Connected

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• 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.

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  Differences, Scales, Projects

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• The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.

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  Ideas, Differences, Building

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• Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

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  Fashion, Art, Practice

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