Zaha Hadid Quotes:
Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
Zaha Hadid
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.
ZAHA HADID
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
ZAHA HADID
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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.
ZAHA HADID
I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
ZAHA HADID
I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.
ZAHA HADID
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
ZAHA HADID
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.
ZAHA HADID
If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don’t fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
ZAHA HADID
Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
ZAHA HADID
Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun.
ZAHA HADID