Quote

I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East.

Zaha Hadid

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Zaha Hadid
Age: 65 †
Born: 1950
Born: October 31
Died: 2016
Died: March 31
Architect
Artist
Designer
Jewelry Designer
Painter
Sculptor
University Teacher
Bagdad
Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid
Zaha M. Hadid
Always
Liked
Would
London
East
Regret
Middle
Two
Done
Regrets
Work
Presence

More quotes by Zaha Hadid

Image
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
Image
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
Zaha Hadid
Image
I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.
Zaha Hadid
Image
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.
Zaha Hadid
Image
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
Image
I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.
Zaha Hadid
Image
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
Zaha Hadid
Image
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
Zaha Hadid
Image
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.
Zaha Hadid
Image
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
Image
All the privileged can travel, see different worlds, not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby.
Zaha Hadid
Image
As a woman you're not accessible to every world.
Zaha Hadid
Image
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
Zaha Hadid
Image
I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.
Zaha Hadid
Image
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
Zaha Hadid
Image
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Zaha Hadid
Image
The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.
Zaha Hadid
Image
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid.
Zaha Hadid
Image
You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.
Zaha Hadid
Image
It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.
Zaha Hadid