Zaha Hadid Quotes - Page 3

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• Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

  Zaha Hadid

  Tough, Architecture, Difficult

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• You really have to have a goal.

  Zaha Hadid

  Goal

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• Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

  Zaha Hadid

  Taught, Cautious

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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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'.

  Zaha Hadid

  Organization, Ideas, Drawing

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

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  Important, Housing, Important Things

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

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  Very Good, Skyscraper, Can Do

  "Zaha Hadid: Britain must do more to help encourage its women architects". Interview with Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2013.

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Strive

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• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Hate, Men, Views

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

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  Projects, Connected

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• 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

  Husband, Nice, Kids

  "At last, it's Zaha Hadid's time to shine" by Becky Anderson, www.cnn.com. August 8, 2012.

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• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2009.

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Museums, Pedestal, Furniture

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• People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Artist, Thinking

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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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  Men, Thinking, Long

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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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• As a woman you're not accessible to every world.

  Zaha Hadid

  World

  "Zaha Hadid: 'I'm happy to be on the outside'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2010.

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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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Strong, Technology, Design

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

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Doctrine, Logic

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

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  Thinking, People, Interesting

  " Zaha Hadid says austerity is not an excuse for low-quality housing" by Mark Sweney, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the north of iraq. The architect was a close friend of my father's and he used to come to our house with the drawings and models. I remember seeing the model in our living room and I think it triggered something, as I was completely intrigued by it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Memories, Father, Aunt

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• 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.

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  Years, Students, Plant

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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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  Art, White, Kind

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• 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

  Nice, Thinking, Cities

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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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• 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.

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  Depression, Depressing, Decision

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