Zaha Hadid Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.”

“My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.”

“People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.”

“The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.”

“The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.”

“When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.”

“When I taught, all my best students were women.”

“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.”

“I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.”

“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.”