Zaha Hadid Quotes
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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.
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It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
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All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
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I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
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The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
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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.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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There is a strong reciprocal relationship whereby our more ambitious design visions encourage the continuing development of the new digital technologies and fabrication techniques, and those new developments in turn inspire us to push the design envelope ever further.
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I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
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In terms of form, all the projects interest me equally, although there are obviously large differences according to the scale and process of each project.
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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.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.
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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.
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Know what it is that you are trying to find out.
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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.
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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.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Malevitch discovered abstraction as an experimental principle that can propel creative work to previously unheard levels of invention; this abstract work allowed much greater levels of creativity.
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I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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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.
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When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
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The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal.
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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!
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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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.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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