140 Quotes by Zaha Hadid

Yes, I’m a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

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.

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.

I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

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.

The beauty of the landscape – where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together – has never left me.

I don’t particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It’s always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

Contrary to popular view, I’ve never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don’t hate women. It’s a very different kind of mentality.