Zaha Hadid Quotes

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architecture

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

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• A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

  Zaha Hadid

  Design, Benefits, Input

  Source: www.designboom.com

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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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Simple, Thinking, Make You Think

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• Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless

  Zaha Hadid

  Writing, Looks, Architecture

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• You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.

  Zaha Hadid

  Inspirational, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Winning, People, Competition

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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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Fashion, Space, Architecture

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• I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

  Zaha Hadid

  Jewels, Cities, Trying

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glance, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

  Zaha Hadid

  Inspirational, Women, Should Have

  "Interviews with zaha hadid: the architect's work in her own words". Designboom Interview, www.designboom.com. 2007.

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Appreciated, Proportion, Dare

  "Zaha Hadid and United Nude Unveil the nOVa Shoe" by Becky Quintal, www.archdaily.com. July 5, 2013.

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• I really believe in the idea of the future.

  Zaha Hadid

  Believe, Ideas

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• The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

  Zaha Hadid

  People, Water, Bird

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Technology, Design, Ambitious

  Source: www.designboom.com

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Trying, Knows

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore.

  Zaha Hadid

  Girl, Guy, Mind

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

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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!

  Zaha Hadid

  Knowing, Aim, Hard

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

  Zaha Hadid

  Women, Smart, Inspiration

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. The intention is to really carve out of a city civic spaces and the more it is accessible to a much larger mass in public and it's about people enjoying that space. That makes life that much better. If you think about housing, education, whether schools and hospitals, these are all very interesting projects because in the way you interpret this special experience.

  Zaha Hadid

  School, Thinking, Space

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• I am eccentric, I admit it, but I am not a nutcase.

  Zaha Hadid

  Eccentric

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• Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

  Zaha Hadid

  Giving, Way, Satisfaction

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

  Zaha Hadid

  Dream, Thinking, Architecture

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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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Ideas, Differences, Building

  Source: www.designboom.com

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Guy, Call Me, Ifs

  "Phaeno Science Centre". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

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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

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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