Zaha Hadid quotes
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
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.
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
Заха Хадид
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Zaha Hadid quotes
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
Заха Хадид
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I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.
Заха Хадид
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