Zaha Hadid Quotes About Architecture

Quotes about: Architecture

• 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

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Writing, Looks, Architecture

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Nice, Design, Quality

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

• 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

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  Zaha Hadid

  Block, Believe, Differences

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

• It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.

  Zaha Hadid

  Looks, Architecture, Architect

  "Zaha Hadid defends Qatar World Cup role following migrant worker deaths" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2014.

• 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

  Source: www.designboom.com

• 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

  Source: www.designboom.com

• For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, World, Architecture

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

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Pieces, Architecture, Form

  Source: www.designboom.com

• 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.

• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Architecture, Building

• The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, Way, Architecture

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

• 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.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Agendas, Architecture

  Source: www.designboom.com

• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  Zaha Hadid

  Female, Half, Students

  "Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'". Interview with Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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

  Zaha Hadid

  Worry, May, Conservative

  Source: www.designboom.com

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Cities, Miami

• 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

  Men, Thinking, Long

• 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

  Source: www.designboom.com

• 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

• From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.

  Zaha Hadid

  Ideas, Association, Firsts

  Source: www.designboom.com

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