Zaha Hadid quotes
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.
Заха Хадид
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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'.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
They all come out from the same thing; all the projects are connected somehow.
Заха Хадид
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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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!
Заха Хадид
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With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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